 He mulled over the possibility that the Chinese characters were an unwitting form of his universal characteristic.He noted with fascination how the "I Ching" hexagrams correspond to the binary numbers from 000000 to 111111, and concluded that this mapping was evidence of major Chinese accomplishments in the sort of philosophical mathematics he admired.Leibniz communicated his ideas of the binary system representing Christianity to the Emperor of China, hoping it would convert him.