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In 1994, a female professor wrote a sensational book—*Tao of Chaos: Merging East and West*, by Katya Walter. At the time, people were still reeling from the Jurassic Park frenzy, which inadvertently introduced the emerging field of "Chaos Theory" to the public. The author's combination of the *I Ching*, chaos theory, and DNA caused a sensation. Even later, in the Wesleyan movie starring Andy Lau, a scene depicting Wesley lying on a yacht reading this book was used to highlight his exceptional wisdom. Years later, people felt that some of the content was exaggerated. However, she used statistics to prove something very important: people's perception of divination as effective/accurate is not mere speculation! The *I Ching* has 64 hexagrams, each with 6 lines, meaning each question has 384 possible answers. While those unfamiliar with the *I Ching* might find many answers similar, they can still be categorized into at least 50 different solutions. The author then performed a divination once a day for 200 consecutive days. Because the result was known, it was statistically determined that approximately 80% of the answers roughly matched the result. Statistically speaking, if the chance of hitting the target each time is 1/50, hitting it 160 times in 200 games is roughly one in several trillion trillion trillion, or winning the lottery jackpot several times in a row—that is, consecutively! In other words, the probability of far-fetched interpretations is one in several trillion trillion trillion.

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