Nah, “aaaaa”, “bbbbb”, and “zzzzz” doesn’t need to be one of the “multiple choices”
Don’t spell each letter of each word, just use words to “spell out” the sentence instead.
Once you’re able to use time as an information, they can send a message with a character limit. For every letter they need to wait:
Remaining Message Length^Alphabet Size*Index of Letter*time interval
So, if future people want to sent the message hello and our time unit is 1s, and the max message length is 5, they need to send the bit to exactly
26^4*7+26^3*4+26^2*11+26^1*11+26^0*14=3276872 seconds or 54614,5333min or 910,242222h or ~38 days after the start time.
We can choose smaller time intervals, but with a long enough message, we’ll eventually reach the year 3000 again. Alternatively, we can move the start time into the past, at the expense of quite a few possible messages.
This is effectively the same problem as trying to map an n-dimensional array to a one dimensional array.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Ediacarium@feddit.org 2 hours ago
If you’re not asking about anything that we currently don’t have a word for, we can use words as the alphabet, sure.
We then need to transmit a list of words, they’re allowed to use, otherwise our count is off, because I’m sure that 974 years from now english won’t be the same, as it is today. They’ll have a lot more skibid rizz than we do now.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
use Chinese xD
logographic languages tend to last longer, especially now all the characters are digitized.
A “Computer” didn’t exist in ancient times, but they still used words that have always existed to create new compound words: 电脑 (“Electric” + “Brain”). Airplanes didn’t exist but they still have 飞机 (“Flying” + “Machine”)
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 11 minutes ago
Wrong. Assuming 6bit and one bit per minute; a 3 char start and stop sequence. 1024 character message could be sent per 4.3 days. Or a faster response time than my ex.