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I like the way the disk begins in eye-readable scale and tapers down. But why not continue this even further? At some point, when enough exposition has been don
by arjunnarayan 15y ago
I like the way the disk begins in eye-readable scale and tapers down. But why not continue this even further? At some point, when enough exposition has been done so that the corpus is fairly understandable, you could then introduce the concept of binary encoding. And then after a few short examples and mappings, then continue the rest of the disc in binary form.
One could theoretically take this further by then explaining how we built our primitive computers, some simple math, and continue.
I would love an accompanying Rosetta project that was in just one language, but exposited our understandings of math, physics and computer science so that some civilization that discovered the twin discs could use the first one to learn English (as long as they knew or could decipher at least one of the languages) and the second one to reconstruct our understanding of math, physics and computer science and rebuild a 2000 AD era computer, and finally input to it a tar.gz dump of all of Wikipedia.