>
> The above is a steadily increasing sequence, which could be used to
advantage.
> One could represent delta n for additional compression.
> 1,1,1,1,2,1,1,3,7,6,4,3,67,12,... has fewer bits.
> Then put the message through something standard like Huffman or LZH.
> The difficulty is that with each step the message becomes more obscure.
> And the essence of a message is to communicate something.
>
Surely if we just wanted to communicate, just a list of primes would be
enough to distinguish our message from random signals. We would surely
only be worrying about trying to impress our ET neighbours once contact had
been established, I vote we send out 2,3,5,7,11,13,...
Michael.
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