Ifa Divination, The Father of Computers. Part_1

What A title, nah? I know.

Shall we play a game ?

A game of 1 stroke (|) and 2 stroke (||)

It starts with some lines, then It’s unstoppable….

Shall we begin ?

Now let’s make pairs ( ´･ω･)人(・ω・｀ )

Now let’ s add them. Here’s the rules,

• Even = || (2 strokes)
• Odd = | (1 stroke)

I repeat the previous steps 4 times to make 4 others symbols (I drew others sets of lines , then add them according to the rules)

Now let’s make pairs, and add them ٩( ᐖ )人( ᐛ )و

• Even = || (2 strokes)
• Odd = | (1 strokes)

(っ╥﹏╥ς) The first row is a mistake | + |= even = ||

*⛔✋😮🤚 ⛔ *[ I made a mistake in the first row, | + | = ||, but you still get the gist of the addition rule…Sorry if it was confusing]**

Here’s the cool part. ✌︎㋡

We read the initial 4 symbols sideway to create 4 other symbols

Remember the 4 initial symbols,

Guess what we do with the new sideway-symbols ( ╹ -╹)?

We repeat the same process again !

Check this out,

The result of adding normal ones, and adding the sideway ones give 4 other symbols ⭐

Guess what I’ll do with these 4 symbols (,,•᷄‎ࡇ•᷅ ,,)?

Repeat the entire process again !

Step-By-Step 三三ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

1. Adding the 4 initial symbols gave me 2 symbols .

2. I read the 4 initial symbols sideway to get 4 other symbols .

3. I added the 4 sideway-symbols to get 2 other symbols .

4. I took the 2 first symbols with the later 2 other symbols, and made a group of 4 .

5. With those final 4 symbols, I repeat the entire process again.

6. and again forever…

Do you now get why the game is unstoppable?

This is what mathematicians call determinism chaos !

The output is the input of the next stage.

Truly fascinating, right ? ヾ(｡✪ω✪｡)ｼ

It’s interesting, but what now? (¬_¬”)

A little bit of history first (っ’-’)╮=͟͟͞🍋)`-’ )

The game above was developed in Africa, Senegal.

It’s use as a divination tool in which each symbol generated carries a meaning — fortune, travel, money etc

This divination tool entered the muslim world — long ago— and Hugo Santalia brought it from muslim mystics into spain;

Once upon a time, spain was under muslim control, 711 AD.

In spain, it entered into the alchemy community 🧙‍♂ ️as Geomancy, the divination through the earth.

The Africa Divination Tool spread through Europe

Here’s when things start to become interesting !

Leibniz, German mathematician, talked about Geomancy in his Dissertatio de arte combinatoria (just another book). In his book, he expressed that:

“ Instead of using | and ||, why not use 1 and 0 (‘•.•’)? “

• | → 1
• || →0

From there he developed this,

Go arrange your room kid ૮ ˙Ⱉ˙ ა rawr!

I have two choices 1 and 0.

Two choices. One spot.

Question: In how many ways can I arrange my two choices into that one spot?

Do you feel like the question is wierd ?

You’re right about that.

It is wierd !

This diagram will make things more clear.

2 choices, | and || . one [ spot ]

I can either first place [ | | ]

or

2 choices, | and || . one [ spot ]

I can either first place [ | ]

Hopefully, you understand now.

2 choices and 1 spot = 2 possible arrangements

| and || → [ | ] or [ | | ]

In Leibniz language,

2 choices and 1 spot = 2 possible arrangements

1 and 0 → [ 1 ] or [ 0 ]

Level 2: 2 choices. 2 spots

or

2 choices. 2 spots. 4 possible arrangements:

🚨🫷🥺🫸 StAwP 🚨

For the 1 spot, I have 2 choices .

For each of the 2 choices of the first spot, I still have 2 choices .

Thus, the number of possible arrangements is 2 × 2 = 4 .

I know thinking it mathematicaly might be confusing (it is confusing at first), but you really have to think it through yourself to get it.

It took me days to understand why I had to multiply…(ᵕ — ᴗ — )

🚨🫷🥺🫸 StAwP 🚨

Level 3: 2 choices. 3 spots

For the 1 spot, I have 2 choices.

For each of the 2 choices of the first spot, I still have 2 choices.

For each of the 4 choices of the second spot, I still have 2 choices.

Thus, the number of possible arrangements is 2× 2 × 2 = 8

🤓☝️Leibniz summarized his findings.

2 choices. 1 spot. 2 arrangements

2 choices. 2 spots. 2² arrangements

2 choices. 3 spots. 2³ arrangements

backward

2 choices. 0 spot. 1 arrangemet — math sometimes can be weird ( ꩜ ᯅ ꩜;) 

Now check this out 💪🏻💥

After quite some time, Leibniz realized that he could express natural numbers solely with 1 and 0.

0 → don’t use it

1 → use it

16 → 10000.

Remember the last 0 is 2⁰ for zero spot.

Each spot is a power of 2. the last being 2⁰, for zero spot

We start at zero when counting spots. ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ

16 → 10000. It has 4 spots, not 5 spots. {I know it’s confusing}

11 → 01011 because ( 8 + 2 + 1= 11 )

1= 0 spot (2⁰)

1 = 1 spot (2¹)

0 = 2 spot

1 = 3 spot (2³)

0 = 4 spot

For bigger numbers, such as 34 you need more spots.

→ Go ahead what is the binary code of 45 ◝(ᵔᵕᵔ)◜?

You see

As always dear reader, it all started in Africa !

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