>The aliens sent their message using a continuous transmission channel, like the frequency shift of a pulsar relative to its average or something like that. NASA measured this continuous value and stored the result as floating point data.
Then it makes no sense for them to publish it in binary without mentioning the encoding, or making it part of the puzzle to begin with.
>The aliens sent their message using a continuous transmission channel, like the frequency shift of a pulsar relative to its average or something like that. NASA measured this continuous value and stored the result as floating point data.
Then it makes no sense for them to publish it in binary without mentioning the encoding, or making it part of the puzzle to begin with.