I, as exociticen, is not very impressed with a large string filled with a
lot of 1�s and 0�s, can be a numerical serie, it�s similar to the "Moon
Lisa", but can be just static, or just a barbarian exocivilization that
only use 1 and 0.
Maybe we must send sorted numbers (0 to n) to set a numerical system,
followed by operations between numbers (2, 4, 6, .... m*2 .... n ) for
plus, (2,4,8,16,...2^m, ..., n) etc...
Mauricio -=\Chubasco/=- Latorre
At 06:54 PM 07-03-1999 -0500, you wrote:
>One problem that seems hidden in transmitting a large Mersenne numbers is
>the difficulty in decoding a very long string
>of binary 1's. Apart from a constant signal being non-random, how does a
>receiver know when it starts and stops? And
>how do they guess how to parse it.
>
>I hate to paraphrase a comic, but compared to a Cobol core-dump, Joan
>Rivers', "Can we talk?" is easily understood.
>
>Sending Mersennes looks like a singularly difficult way to get somebody's
>attention.
>
>Joth Tupper
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