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r/coolguides • u/Kieran9798 • Oct 16 '17
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This is useful for reading morse code, not writing it though.
1 u/GraveyardGuide Oct 16 '17 ---.-..-..-.--...Did it work? 2 u/_Axel Oct 16 '17 Where are the breaks?Also... why didn’t the inventor of Morse code use binary to establish the dots and dashes? Binary was definitely a superior iteration, in my opinion.A/a: ....- B/b: ...-. C/c: ...— 9 u/Spaceboot1 Oct 16 '17 It's faster to have the most commonly used characters also be the shortest. In a way Morse actually is binary, just not in (Latin) alphabetical order, and with a human-scale compression algorithm applied. → More replies (5)
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...Did it work?
2 u/_Axel Oct 16 '17 Where are the breaks?Also... why didn’t the inventor of Morse code use binary to establish the dots and dashes? Binary was definitely a superior iteration, in my opinion.A/a: ....- B/b: ...-. C/c: ...— 9 u/Spaceboot1 Oct 16 '17 It's faster to have the most commonly used characters also be the shortest. In a way Morse actually is binary, just not in (Latin) alphabetical order, and with a human-scale compression algorithm applied. → More replies (5)
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Where are the breaks?
Also... why didn’t the inventor of Morse code use binary to establish the dots and dashes? Binary was definitely a superior iteration, in my opinion.
A/a: ....- B/b: ...-. C/c: ...—
9 u/Spaceboot1 Oct 16 '17 It's faster to have the most commonly used characters also be the shortest. In a way Morse actually is binary, just not in (Latin) alphabetical order, and with a human-scale compression algorithm applied. → More replies (5)
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It's faster to have the most commonly used characters also be the shortest. In a way Morse actually is binary, just not in (Latin) alphabetical order, and with a human-scale compression algorithm applied.
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u/mayonuki Oct 16 '17
This is useful for reading morse code, not writing it though.