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; Bagua {{anchor|BaGua}}: The ''[[bagua]]'' is a set of diagrams used in ''[[feng shui]],'' [[Taoist]] [[cosmology]] and ''[[I Ching]]'' studies. The ''ba gua'' consists of 8 trigrams; each a combination of three lines (''yáo'') that are either broken ([[Yin and yang|''yin'']]) or unbroken (''yang'').<ref name='wilhelm'>{{cite book |last=Wilhelm |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Wilhelm (sinologist) |others=trans. by [[Cary F. Baynes]], foreword by [[C. G. Jung]], preface to 3rd ed. by [[Hellmut Wilhelm]] (1967) |title=The I Ching or Book of Changes |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1950 |___location=Princeton, NJ |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bbU9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA266 |isbn=978-0-691-09750-3 |pages=266, 269}}</ref>

; Ifá, Ilm Al-Raml and Geomancy{{anchor|Ifá}}: The [[Ifá]]/Ifé system of divination in African religions, such as of [[Yoruba people |Yoruba]], [[Igbo people |Igbo]], and [[Ewe people |Ewe]], consists of an elaborate traditional ceremony producing 256 oracles made up by 16 symbols with 256 = 16 x 16. A priest, or [[Babalawo]], requests sacrifice from consulting clients and makes prayers. Then, divination [[nut (fruit)|nuts]] or a pair of [[chain]]s are used to produce random binary numbers,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Olupona |first=Jacob K. |title=African Religions: A Very Short Introduction |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-19-979058-6 |___location=Oxford |pages=45 |oclc=839396781}}</ref> which are drawn with sandy material on an "Opun" figured wooden tray representing the totality of fate.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Eglash|first=Ron|date=June 2007|title=The fractals at the heart of African designs|url=https://www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_the_fractals_at_the_heart_of_african_designs/up-next#t-13472|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-15|website=www.ted.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210727161435/https://www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_the_fractals_at_the_heart_of_african_designs/up-next |archive-date=2021-07-27 }}</ref>

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