Past attempts to identify or contact extraterrestrial intelligent life have involved efforts to send radio messages carrying

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Past attempts to identify or contact extraterrestrial intelligent life have involved efforts to send radio messages carrying information about us earthlings. Dr. Frank Drake of Cornell University developed such a radio message that could be transmitted as a series of pulses and gaps. The pulses and gaps can be considered to be 1s and 0s. Listed below is a message consisting of 77 entries of 0s and 1s. If we factor 77 into the prime numbers of 7 and 11 and then make an 11 × 7 grid and put a dot at those positions corresponding to a pulse of 1, we can get a simple picture of something. Assume that the sequence of 77 entries of 1s and 0s is sent as a radio message that is intercepted by extraterrestrial life with enough intelligence to have studied this book. If the radio message is tested using the methods of this chapter, will the sequence appear to be “random noise” or will it be identified as a pattern that is not random? Also, construct the image represented by the digits and identify it.

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Mathematical Interest Theory

ISBN: 9781470465681

3rd Edition

Authors: Leslie Jane, James Daniel, Federer Vaaler

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