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* "[http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~carlp/PDF/extraterrestrial.pdf Prime Numbers and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence]" by Carl Pomerance, is an academic paper which discusses the idea in depth.
* Space probes (like Pioneer 10) we sent out of the Solar System usually contain this in some form. <ref>And a star map telling them [[We Come in Peace, Shoot To Kill|where we are]]. [[Naked People Are Funny|And naked people]]. (That last one is presumably to show what humans actually look like. [[It Makes Sense in Context]] -- otherwise the aliens might assume that the probe itself is the intelligent life!</ref>
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincos_<!-- 28language29%28language%29 Lincos]] is one possible example of ''how'' to extend the message into actual communication, building up to a complete language from only the natural numbers (fiction, being written by [[WritersCannotDoMathWriters Cannot Do Math|writers]], usually skips this bit). -->
* The notion mentioned above for ''The Andromeda Affair'' ("a repeating sequence with a period that is the product of two primes is an indicator that it represents a rectangular grid") is not a stunning leap of logic for anyone familiar with SETI, since it's been used in human broadcasts as well.
 
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