The King Wen Permutation A hidden mathematical structure in a 3,000-year-old Chinese text 52 cycle | 10 cycle | 2 cycle The 64 hexagrams of the I Ching have two canonical orderings: the binary natural order (0–63) and the King Wen sequence (~1000 BCE). Treating the map between them as a permutation in S₆₄, its cycle decomposition yields [52, 10, 2] with zero fixed points. 81% of hexagrams are locked in a single cycle. This structure has not been previously reported in the literature.
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