From: Richard Burke-Ward (richard.bw@btinternet.com)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 17:04:22 PST
> 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.
Folks, human vision is a better patter-detector than mathematics! Why not
just try varying the page-width of the digit stream until a pattern emerges?
Takes about 3 minutes!
You'll find there are missing / extra digits in the stream - and also a very
obvious explanation (well, obvious after the event!) for why overall number
of digits is no help... I don't want to give too much away - play with it
yourselves - but that margin-setting tip should get you started in almost no
time.
Enjoy.
All the best,
Richard
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