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February 23, 2004

A message ...

Fourmilab's article on self-decoding messages makes for an interesting puzzle ...

How would you go about dealing with something like this if you were an alien?

0000001010101000000000000101000001010000000100100010001000100101
1001010101010101010100100100000000000000000000000000000000000001
1000000000000000000011010000000000000000000110100000000000000000
0101010000000000000000001111100000000000000000000000000000000110
0001110001100001100010000000000000110010000110100011000110000110
1011111011111011111011111000000000000000000000000001000000000000
0000010000000000000000000000000000100000000000000000111111000000
0000000111110000000000000000000000011000011000011100011000100000
0010000000001000011010000110001110011010111110111110111110111110
0000000000000000000000000100000011000000000100000000000110000000
0000000010000011000000000011111100000110000001111100000000001100
0000000000010000000010000000010000010000001100000001000000011000
0110000001000000000011000100001100000000000000011001100000000000
0011000100001100000000011000011000000100000001000000100000000100
0001000000011000000001000100000000110000000010001000000000100000
0010000010000000100000001000000010000000000001100000000011000000
0011000000000100011101011000000000001000000010000000000000010000
0111110000000000001000010111010010110110000001001110010011111110
1110000111000001101110000000001010000011101100100000010100000111
1110010000001010000011000000100000110110000000000000000000000000
0000000000111000001000000000000001110101000101010101010011100000
0000101010100000000000000001010000000000000011111000000000000000
0111111111000000000000111000000011100000000011000000000001100000
0011010000000001011000001100110000000110011000010001010000010100
0100001000100100010010001000000001000101000100000000000010000100
0010000000000001000000000100000000000000100101000000000001111001
111101001111000

Posted by daen at February 23, 2004 12:20 PM