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I suspect that the columns represent some kind of cipher. Some notes:
* No column contains more than 7 lights. We should not eliminate an octal counting system as a possibility.
* There are a total of 17 blinking lights and 35 non-blinking lights, making 52 lights total. If this had been a multiple of eight, I would be confident that it represented an ASCII code in binary, but I don't think it's that simple. That said, here are two possible binary readings if we assume that the lights encode runs of ones and zeroes:
1111101111110000111100011111110011111110000011111100
0000010000001111000011100000001100000001111100000011
* The non-blinking columns all contain numbers between 4 and 7 - a range of about 20 - 30. This increases the chance that they represent the tens place in some number that directly translates to ASCII letters. If we assume that, we get:
51 64 43 72 75 62
* Finally, we can't assume that we're dealing with English. It might be worth considering the possibility of Unicode encoding or something.
* No column contains more than 7 lights. We should not eliminate an octal counting system as a possibility.
* There are a total of 17 blinking lights and 35 non-blinking lights, making 52 lights total. If this had been a multiple of eight, I would be confident that it represented an ASCII code in binary, but I don't think it's that simple. That said, here are two possible binary readings if we assume that the lights encode runs of ones and zeroes:
1111101111110000111100011111110011111110000011111100
0000010000001111000011100000001100000001111100000011
* The non-blinking columns all contain numbers between 4 and 7 - a range of about 20 - 30. This increases the chance that they represent the tens place in some number that directly translates to ASCII letters. If we assume that, we get:
51 64 43 72 75 62
* Finally, we can't assume that we're dealing with English. It might be worth considering the possibility of Unicode encoding or something.
