I don't get the relation between the symbols and the numbers.
How do you know one dot is b1 and two dots is b0?
How did you translate the numbers to characters?
English
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I am assuming 1 dot is odd (meaining a 1) and two dots is even (meaning a 0) Binary to characters - just A=1 b=2 c=3 ect
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Edited by Pulse Cloud: 1/13/2013 9:30:10 PMThat's pretty darn far fetched, bro. Why wouldn't the criterion be "1 dot = 0 and 2 dots = 1 because 2 > 1"? That makes more sense, I think, but it's still entirely baseless. If there are only 16 symbols, attributing them to our alphabet doesn't make much sense because our alphabet has more than 16 letters. You could use hexadecimal notation, though, for instance to write the symbols in plain text; assuming I'm right about the codification to binary, the image you posted in the OP would be equivalent to 0953B76. This has the advantage of being extremely easy to code and decode because it's just good ol' hexadecimal notation: no fiddling around with counting letters and such.
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the binary makes sense, the symbols used properly are used as binary. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomancy] wiki source [/url] - I'm not good with hexadecimal you could easily be right - break it down as to how you got to that answer
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Edited by Pulse Cloud: 1/13/2013 9:46:33 PMDecimal | Hexadecimal 0 | 0 ----- 4 | 4 ----- 8 | 8 ----- 12 | C 1 | 1 ----- 5 | 5 ----- 9 | 9 ----- 13 | D 2 | 2 ----- 6 | 6 ----- 10 | A ----- 14 | E 3 | 3 ----- 7 | 7 ----- 11 | B ----- 15 | F I separated each column with hyphens because multiple spaces are reduced to a single space... Each symbol has 4 rows, i.e., 4 bits, so each symbol can be encoded as a single hexadecimal digit. That's what I did.
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gotcha - two things the only reason I used the geomancy angle was because it is an established method, bungie almost confrimed it Second - this could still be a valid aveune though, so what does "0953B76" get us?
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Edited by Pulse Cloud: 1/13/2013 10:02:21 PM[quote]what does "0953B76" get us?[/quote] dunno lol. The most immediate advantage of encoding the symbols to hex is exactly that: they're encoded in an easy to use fashion. It's much easier to write "0953B7" than to post a link to an image containing the equivalent symbols.