At 08:26 PM 3/9/99 -0800, Spike Jones wrote:
>This reinforces an earlier notion I posted: that primes are the most
>obvious thing to put in a messages bound for exocivilizations. In
>retrospect, it is difficult to imagine such a message without reference
>to prime numbers and/or mathematics as we know it.
That what they used 35-40 years ago.
>Consider this: *any* civilization that is capable of receiving our
>messages must have developed knowledge of math functions, and
>knowledge of division implies knowledge of primes.
Postmodern relativists would disagree.
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