number
Six
A small integer between five and seven. Directions, work-days, and later geometric talk have used it without sharing one doctrine.
Chinese tradition
Six appears in Chinese tradition.
The Yijing hexagram is built of six lines; six is a working count of that classic. A named six in that number world, not hexagram as the figure already filed and not sixty as Mesopotamian sexagesimal.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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Perfect number is associated with Six.
In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, six is named the perfect number, and further ratios are formed by additions above six — six is the named perfect-number hinge of that modular arithmetic.
from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914
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sources
- I Ching (Yijing) · Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation)
The I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm, English Cary F. Baynes.
- De Architectura · Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation)
Vitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture, trans. Morris Hicky Morgan (1914).