If you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send? - eviltoast
    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      It’s explained in the PDF. If they used normal numbers and letters, the chance of corruption would be high. So they had to reform into the symbols you see.

      I still don’t get why we use Pi instead of Tau though, when most equations double it up into Tau anyway.