Xiang Shan roughly understood.
Or rather, the only thing that momentarily bewildered Xiang Shan was the example Ingrid presented.
He hadn't expected to hear such a... strange example in this context.
However, aside from that, there seems to be nothing more valuable.
It can only be said that any professional, when outside their own field of expertise, is no wiser than a layperson.
Although in Ingrid's eyes, the aliens' way of writing is extremely interesting, in the end, it's just a compression algorithm.
And this does not explain the problem Xiang Shan is currently pondering.
"How are all the design drawings, assembly processes, material manufacturing parameters of alien machinery, plus their operating AI, compressed to a level of two to three hundred MB?"
The aliens used two types of compression algorithms.