Inthisbook,theZhou-YianditsDivinationProcessarereviewedfrommathematicalperspectiveswhichprovideacompletelynewunderstandingofitsmeaningandoperationfeatures.Thehighlightsare:-
1.TheGeneralizedYiSystemsGroupconsistsofaninfinitenumberofYiSystems,Zhou-YiisjustoneitemoftheYiSystem2intheGeneralizedYiSystemsGroup.
2.ParametersofallYiSystemscanbeconvenientlyfoundbyasetofformulae.
3.ThedivinationprocessofZhou-Yiwaswritteninamnemonicformatwithhintsforthestepsofdivination.ThesocalledBiggestComputationNumberisactuallyadummycreatedtofacilitatethecountingofstepsfromStep1.Theactualnumberthataffectsthedivinationisgivenbysubtracting1fromtheBiggestComputationNumberasahintforstep1.
4.DatafromdigitalcomputersimulationofZhou-YidivinationprocessshowthatinswappingtheYin-YangDivinedNumbersinaLineofaYiHexagram,the6/9swapismathematicallymorelogicalthanthatof7/8swap.
5.MathematicallyclassifiedTrigramGroupsandHexagramGroupsprovideanewandmorelogicalinsightstotheinter-relationshipsbetweentheDiagrams.
DIVINATION STUDIES PROCESS NEW YI
