BloghuhBloghuh? is a collaborative blogging project running throughout this week, encouraging participants to write posts on things that mystify them. The rapidly growing list of participants is in the sidebar, and the post that started it all can be found here.

My quest for something mystifying, interesting and not one of my normal rants about the world (because let's be honest, on balance life isn't so bad, for me at least), has led me to something that may go down like a lead balloon. But that's the case with all my posts, so let's get on with it.

I've found something that amazes me. Mystify, yes, but loosely (as was allowed in the Bloghuh? mission statement). More to the point, it's something I expect to mystify some of you. Have a look at this document (PDF, ~45kB). After the more link are a few random thoughts.

Amazing, huh? Most people will have taken one look and closed the window, mystified and uninterested. Fair enough. Other people may be intrigued by it, perhaps enough to try and puzzle it out: the maths itself is pretty simple stuff and if you make a few good guesses for the symbols you don't know it should be relatively simple.
Then there's the choir, so to speak, those to whom I don't need to extol the mysteries of logic and mathematics. Sure, a lot of people cynically studied it for other gain (because it's a pretty good discipline to have a grounding in), but most of the folk who can still remember this stuff are probably in the boat with me of being amazed and mystified by the endless possibilities of the system.

So, have a look at the document, and maybe see how you get on reading it. If you can work out anything about what it says (and didn't already know), tell me. Be aware that the page of scarce symbols is worth several hundred words (one of the amazing and mystifying things...).

If there's been any interest I'll follow up in a few days.