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No, I'd try to keep it as simple as possible, symbolically speaking. You could just use sets of beeps. A signal could look like:

. . _ . . . _ . . . . . _ . . . . . . . _ . . . . . . . . . . . _ and so on and so forth.

If you're worried that the primes would get too big (which is a legitimate concern), a good compromise might be to use the Fibonacci Sequence modulo some n, which creates discrete, repeating periods. We could try to optimize n so that each number never got too big, but the period was long enough that it was obvious what it is.

Pi when n = 5 would give us:

_ _ _ . _ . _ . . _ . . . _ _ _ . . . _ . . . _ . _ . . . . _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ . . . _ . . _ _ _ . . _ . . _ . . . . _ .

It would then repeat. We could go longer: the peiord of Pi(5) is 20 digits, while Pi(10) is 60 digits, so on and so forth.

(In this case _ _ _ codes for the 0 integer - this requires that the gaps and the dots all take a standardized amount of time.)

The benefit of this is that, since it's a cyclic sequence, we could just put it on a loop, and play it until they hear it. The trade-off is that it's less obvious what it is, although I imagine that, given a sufficient level of advancement (and assuming sufficiently similar psychology), they'd probably get it). I can't think of anything else that an alien civilization would be more likely to recognize than a sequence of integers.

Blessings
~ND

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[QUOTE="Nathanial.Dread, post: 3710800, member: 18677"] No, I'd try to keep it as simple as possible, symbolically speaking. You could just use sets of beeps. A signal could look like: . . _ . . . _ . . . . . _ . . . . . . . _ . . . . . . . . . . . _ and so on and so forth. If you're worried that the primes would get too big (which is a legitimate concern), a good compromise might be to use the Fibonacci Sequence modulo some n, which creates discrete, repeating periods. We could try to optimize n so that each number never got too big, but the period was long enough that it was obvious what it is. Pi(n) when n = 5 would give us: _ _ _ . _ . _ . . _ . . . _ _ _ . . . _ . . . _ . _ . . . . _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ . . . _ . . _ _ _ . . _ . . _ . . . . _ . It would then repeat. We could go longer: the peiord of Pi(5) is 20 digits, while Pi(10) is 60 digits, so on and so forth. (In this case _ _ _ codes for the 0 integer - this requires that the gaps and the dots all take a standardized amount of time.) The benefit of this is that, since it's a cyclic sequence, we could just put it on a loop, and play it until they hear it. The trade-off is that it's less obvious what it is, although I imagine that, given a sufficient level of advancement (and assuming sufficiently similar psychology), they'd probably get it). I can't think of anything else that an alien civilization would be more likely to recognize than a sequence of integers. Blessings ~ND [/QUOTE]