Soon, Yang Meng came to the equipment cabin,

According to the blueprint given by Xiao Yi, he used 3D printing technology to start printing decoding equipment and keys.

Looking at the constantly flashing blue laser in the 3D printer, Yang Meng's thoughts had drifted to the content of this information.

"I wonder if there are any new technologies updated this time?"

In the 100 years since he left the earth,

The technology he has is not stagnant.

Because of the constant communication with humans,

The equipment on the spacecraft has also been upgraded to varying degrees,

In the case of having 3D printing technology, equipment upgrade is not a difficult thing to achieve.

It's a pity that because of the limitations of resources and materials,

The Boundless Oriental that he rode was not completely renewed.

According to the original plan,

Wait until he arrives in the Rutan system to collect resources

When the resources are sufficient, a complete update of the ship will be carried out.

Then you can use the new equipment to return to Earth at a faster speed.

But what he didn't expect was that the Rutan Galaxy, as an ancient galactic heavy element, was so scarce, and this situation completely disrupted his previous plan.

At this moment, Xiao Yi's prompt tone interrupted his thoughts:

"The data unpacking device and key have been printed, please take them out!"

Hearing Xiao Yi's prompt,

Yang Meng reached out and took out the equipment and keys that had just been cooled down, but still had a certain temperature, from the printer.

He glanced at the familiar device, and without saying anything, he floated towards the signal bay.

Compared to the actions on Earth,

Once accustomed to the weightless environment of the universe,

It was very easy to act, so Yang Meng quickly arrived at the signal cabin, and then began to unpack the data packets sent by the earth according to the operation specifications.

Just like a puzzle, the signal receiving device on the spacecraft is an extremely important fragment, under the combination of data key, device decoding, physical key of each fragment,

In order to convert the binary digital signals composed of 0 and 1 into data that can be understood by humans through a series of complex operations such as assembly and translation.

Because there is a lot of data from the earth,

Such a transformation takes a certain amount of time,

Yang Meng could only wait, and looking at the progress bar on the display screen, he couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart:

"I don't know who the earth is sparing such a big circle to guard against?"

It was while he was waiting for the data to be decoded.

The small light floated in at some point, and the small light, which was a point of light, flickered and asked Yang Meng:

"What's wrong? Your mood swings seem to be a bit big! ”

Seeing that Xiaoguang was analyzing his emotions again, Yang Meng didn't say anything, just shook his head and said:

"It's not a big deal, it's news from my people!"

"That's it! I really envy that you still have people. ”

After saying this, the flickering frequency of the small light became low,

Seeing Xiaoguang like this, Yang Meng didn't know what to say.

At this time, he saw the data being decoded, and suddenly thought of something, and asked Xiaoguang:

"That's right! What is the structure of your data? ”

Xiaoguang, who was originally a little low, heard such a question, and said with some doubts:

"Data structures? What do you mean! ”

"Hmmm! How so? It's the way information is stored. ”

"How do you store your information?"

The small light that was a point of light flickered, as if it was thinking about something.

"Speaking of which, this question has never been communicated to it yet!"

Yang Meng was also a little curious about the information storage method of the Rutan Star people,

In the history of human development, information storage technology has been constantly developing.

From primitive times,

When humans began to hunt collectively, with the creation of tools, the number of prey they obtained began to increase.

In order to distribute the prey, count the surplus supplies,

Humans in different parts of the planet,

Count the material data in the collective tribe by knotting rope counts, wooden stick markings, rock carvings, etc.

With the progress of productivity,

The data that humans need to record is becoming more and more complex.

It was born from the tools of language, writing, mathematics, etc.

And the materials that carry this information are also enriched.

From bulky stone carvings to woodcuts, bamboo books, to paper.

Books made of paper have become important carriers of information for human beings.

And the knowledge in books has also become the soul of human civilization.

With the advancement of the two industrial revolutions and the innovation of information technology, new information storage media have emerged.

With a simple binary latch,

Humans can store low-potential and high-level electrical signals like 0 and 1 into a very small circuit board.

Then, through ASCII encoding, the binary number is converted into human-intelligible text symbols.

With this, the electronic information age officially opened.

After that, whether it's video or text, or a huge game, strip the high-level programming languages above.

Retrospectively, the human information carrier has become the electrical signal represented by the two binaries of 0 and 1 in memory.

This is the process of development of human information carriers.

"The Rutans have existed for more than a billion years, and they should have their own way of storing information!"

Yang Meng carefully recalled the process he experienced on the Rutan Star,

He didn't find any obvious informational text symbols,

Thinking back on this, he became more and more curious about how the information of the Rutans was stored.

"How do they store the information?"

"Before, Xiaoguang was able to obtain the previous memories so easily, and there must be a unique way of storing information?"

"Speaking of which, when it was on Planet Rutan B, it got its information from a ball of light, so if you think about it, that ball of light should be their storage medium?"

Just when Yang Meng was pondering,

Xiaoguang finally had a voice at this time:

"The way we store information has gone through many phases of development,

The latest storage technology is very complex, I don't know if you can understand it? ”

"Tell me about it!"

"To understand how we store it, you need to understand a mathematical model, which is ......"

Xiaoguang began to slowly describe a mathematical model,

Although Yang Meng is only a professional astronaut, not a professional data expert,

But after all, he has a certain amount of engineering, and in the complex data model described by Xiaoguang, he seems to have heard a constant that he is familiar with.

Somewhat uncertain, he asked Xiao Yi:

"The mathematical model he described seems to be related to the natural constant e!"

"That's right, the mathematical model described by the point of light is a method used to calculate the natural constant e."

Hearing Xiaoguang's confirmation voice, Yang Meng was stunned for a moment:

"It turned out to be really e,

Wait, could it be said that the Rutans use the imaginary base system to record information?

Isn't the decimal number infinite non-cyclic decimal? How can such a number be used as a carrier of information? ”