Lincos, a language purely based on math

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The Story of Lincos, the Math-Based Language Created to Communicate With Extraterrestrials - The Atlantic
I've thought for a while now that if we ever wanted to make a universal language, especially to communicate with beings far more intelligent than us, we ought to make a language based entirely on mathematics, as math is a universal truth and in its own right, a language system to measure units, mass, etc.

Turns out the language exists. While the man responsible for the language didn't live to finish this language, he made a breakthrough in linguistics and the search for extra terrestrial life.
 
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Charleh said:
The Story of Lincos, the Math-Based Language Created to Communicate With Extraterrestrials - The Atlantic
I've thought for a while now that if we ever wanted to make a universal language, especially to communicate with beings far more intelligent than us, we ought to make a language based entirely on mathematics, as math is a universal truth and in its own right, a language system to measure units, mass, etc.

Turns out the language exists. While the man responsible for the language didn't live to finish this language, he made a breakthrough in linguistics and the search for extra terrestrial life.
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I dated a theoretical mathematics major a couple times in college, she spoke like that. At the end of the dates, I was the one saying, "Not tonight, I have a headache."
 
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Duke said:
Well, I did impress her when I told her her rack asymptotically approached spectacular. I can honestly say I never used that line again.

Can I say "rack" here?
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Heres your R- word pass :D
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