| Excerpts from LINCOS: Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse Hans Freudenthal North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1960 I: Mathematics II: Time III: Behaviour IV: Space, Motion, Mass Chapter I: Mathematics 1 00 0. Pairs of signs # will enclose the printed image of a program text. A (metatextual) "and so on" after a text indicates that this text is an exemplary extract from the factual program. When carrying out the program we will replace this text by a large number of texts similar to the text we have printed. If the number of examples is large enough, we may expect that the receiver can generalize the program text. 1 01 0. # > a b c # Loose Lincos words are presented, without any context, in order to stress their individuality. So it will be somewhat easier for the receiver to recognize them when they occur in a certain context. The bold-faced strokes mean pauses. 1 01 1. # . . . . . > . . . # and so on. 1 01 2. # . . . < . . . . . # and so on. 1 01 3. # . . . . = . . . . # and so on. 1 01 4. # . . . . + . . = . . . . . . # and so on. 1 01 5. # . . . . + . . = . . . . . . # and so on. In these texts the Lincos phoneme that corresponds to the round dot is a short radio-signal (a peep). A Lincos word that consists of n successive phonemes of this kind, separated by short and equal intervals, is written as a group of | |
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