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There's a bad science fiction story in here = humans broadcast pi to the stars in many different formats, but nearby aliens sail right past oblivious, mistaking
by tragomaskhalos 5y ago
There's a bad science fiction story in here = humans broadcast pi to the stars in many different formats, but nearby aliens sail right past oblivious, mistaking the signal for random noise because their maths uses tau.
- willis936 5y agoWas it absurd tongue-in-cheek sci-fi comedy similar to Douglas Adams? I can't imagine a technologically advanced civilization missing a perfectly correlated signal.
- Viliam1234 5y agoThe aliens might conclude that we have some taboo against giving correct values and instead write halves of everything. So they would come expecting us to have two heads, four arms, and four legs.