伏羲画卦最经典的记载，见于《周易·系辞下》：「古者包牺氏之王天下也，仰则观象于天，俯则观法于地，观鸟兽之文与地之宜，近取诸身，远取诸物，于是始作八卦。」「包牺氏」就是伏羲。甘肃天水至今有一座明代修建的伏羲庙。

The classic account of Fuxi creating the trigrams is in the Great Commentary of the Book of Changes: in ancient times, when Paoxi ruled the world, he looked up to observe the images in the sky, looked down to observe the patterns on the earth, studied the markings of birds and beasts, drew on his own body and on things far away, and so first created the Eight Trigrams. Paoxi is another name for Fuxi. In Tianshui, Gansu, there is still a Temple of Fuxi built in the Ming dynasty.

八卦只用阴爻和阳爻两种符号，排列组合出各种变化。1703年，德国数学家莱布尼茨发表了关于二进制的论文，他在文中特别提到伏羲的卦象，惊讶地发现它们和二进制的0与1可以一一对应。今天电脑里使用的正是二进制。

The trigrams use only two kinds of lines, broken and unbroken, combined in different ways. In 1703, the German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz published a paper on binary numbers in which he specially mentioned the figures of Fuxi, amazed to find that they matched the 0 and 1 of binary. Binary is exactly what computers use today.

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