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Encounter 2001 Message (for aliens)
- RodgerTheGreat 15y agoA few of my friends and I got together one afternoon and did our best to decode the whole thing. It's really a fun puzzle if you don't spoil yourself by reading the papers that explain the message.
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoHow do you communicate "base 10". The primes on the first page assume it (unless I missed something), but how would you let somebody know "11" is "11" and not "2"?
- sp332 15y agoBecause it has 11 dots next to it.
- biot 15y agoThis is like a combination of the Voyager message and the math/logic primer from Contact. It's fairly easy to eyeball what is going on: mathematical and geometric equivalents are laid out while introducing new symbols which are deduced based on the mathematical properties, such as the use of a symbol representing pi in combination with the circumference and area of a circle on page 5.