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Systems built on combining a series of yes/no answers (yin/yang, or whatever) to identify one out of e.g. 16, 64 or 256 options, have a long history. In many cases, the options are placed in a certain order (as chapters in a book, as segments around an edge of something, or whatever). Such systems
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interesting and relevant; I just think we need to be very clear (and I'm not sure we are at the moment) that most of these historic precedents were
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