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Translation

• In Steins;Gate, there's a scene where a message is sent to a pager. The message is:
• yasai kuu to genki na ko wo umeru
  野菜食うと元気な子を産める
  If [you] eat vegetables, [you] birth a healthy child.
  • Converted to kana:
  • やさいくうとげんきなこをうめる
  • Converted to numbers:
  • *2*228131123134524040322512502137493
• Apparently, this is based on the gojuuon 五十音 input of key pads. Everything after *2*2 is converted to kana. And each kana is represented by two digits, a row-column combination.
• If you press 1, you get the vowel row, a-i-u-e-o あいうえお, so 11 = a, 12 = i, 13 = u, 14 = e, 15 = o. If you press 2, you get the ka-row, ka-ki-ku-ke-ko かきくけこ, so 23 = ku, for example.
• Furthermore, diacritics are input separately, so they take an extra 2 digits
  • In the anime, the original message was too long to be sent, and Okabe had to change the word taberu たべる, "to eat," to kuu くう, which is a synonymous word used more by men. (see: female language.)
• Based on this, the code shown in the anime is wrong.^{[８話Ｑ＆Ａと小ネタ - w.atwiki.jp, accessed 2020-02-09]}
• The correct code is:
• *2*281311223134524040322512502137493
• Observe:
  • 81, 31, 12
    や, さ, い
    ya, sa, i
  • 23, 13, 45,
    く, う, と
    ku, u, to
  • 24, 04, 03, 22, 51
    け, ゛, ん, き, な
    げ, ん, き, な
    ge, n, ki, na
  • 25, 02, 13, 74, 93
    こ, を, う, め, る
    ko, wo, u, me, ru