Shao Yong (邵雍, 1011–1077) was a Chinese cosmologist, historian, philosopher, and poet, who played a key role in shaping Neo-Confucianism during the Song dynasty. Shao Yong ordered the I Ching hexagrams according to a binary sequence. His diagram influenced Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716), coinventor of calculus, who contributed to the development of today’s binary number system and pioneered modern computation
