The Book of Changes and statistics | Hou Wenxi ry ‘Librar Ri eibrary INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DCPublished and Distributed by International Academic Publishers 137 Chaonei Dajie Beijing 100010, People’s Republic of China Copyright © 1993 by International Academic Publishers All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be repro- duced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means: electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, me- chanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. First edition 1993 Hou wenxi The Book of Changes and Statistics ISBN 7-80003-228-4/0-46 Printed by the Printing House of China Building Industry PressContents Introductory Words ............ eee cece eee eee eee eeee v Chapter 1 Introduction................. eee e eee eee eee 1 Ll The Origin of the Bight Trigrams ............0..0e.00ee 1 1.2 The Permutation and Array of 64 Hexagrams ......... 13 1.3 Changes, Non-changes, Unsophisticated Changes and Statistics. . eenesececeee nese cner ee ee estes eee eeee ees 22 ok-of Changes and Numbers .................- 25 Chapter 2. The Book of Changes and Probability .. 28 2.1 Definition of Probability ..0...........000ccccceeeeees 28 2.2 Binomial Distribution (The Divination and Binomial Distribution) .......... 6.6... c cece eee ee eee ee eens 31 2.3 The Book of Changes and Normal Distribution .......34 2.4 The Comparison Between the Philosophical Principles of the Book of Changes and Normal Distribution ..... 41 Summary ...... 2... e cece ec eee eee eee 54 Chapter 3 Tai Ji Tu (The Diagram of Cosmological Scheme) ...........66-. 500s ce cece eee eens 56 3.1 The Geometric Figure of Tai Ji Tu .............0..005 56 3.2 The Relation Between Yin and Yang ................. 59