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.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the actual messages humanity has sent into space in the hopes that aliens will hear it since those are actually pretty cool.
I mean look at this crap. Look at how cool it looks. https://www.plover.com/misc/Dumas-Dutil/messages.pdf
(I’m on mobile otherwise I’d add a picture)
https://www.plover.com/misc/Dumas-Dutil/messages.pdf
Again a cringe Word PDF title (why cant this program use normal Titles?)
Why tf didnt they just draw our numbers and instead some crazy art stuff?
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.
Well thanks now they think we are all men
It’s kinda cool but not sure why they thought creating a new set of pictograms that aren’t used on Earth was the best method
https://xkcd.com/927/
So that the symbols would be less likely to get corrupted if the aliens received it over a bad radio link