From: Dr. H. Paul Shuch (n6tx@setileague.org)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 13:10:40 PST
At 06:59 PM 1/24/02 -0000, john.elliott wrote:
> It was also reasonably obvious
>that information had been simulated as lost, as the number of bits in the
>stream is a prime number.
That's what tripped me up, John! I tried to factor the bit stream as the
product of two prime numbers (so as to set up a matrix), and failed
dismally. Then I figured it must be a 3-dimensional image, and tried for a
product of 3 primes, without success. It never occured to me that there
were simulated message dropouts. So, I guess I'm not as clever as we're
expecting ETI to be.
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