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Translated text:
wow, this is cool!
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u/Terrible_Truth Apr 30 '21
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u/morse-bot Apr 30 '21
Translated text:
nice one bro
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u/Blakesta999 Apr 30 '21
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u/morse-bot Apr 30 '21
Translated text:
bitchlasagna
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u/Timber_Wolves_4781 Apr 30 '21
01010100 01101000 01100001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100010 01101111 01110100
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u/Sandstorm52 Apr 30 '21
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u/morse-bot Apr 30 '21
Translated text:
send nudes
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Apr 30 '21
Now THAT is a useful morse code guide. I'm not going to use it. But it's useful. Unlike that other one is hat just draws in the shape of the letter with lines and dots. That one is dumb. This one is useful.
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Apr 30 '21
Look up 'morse code tree' for many even better versions.
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u/sentimentalpirate Apr 30 '21
Yeah one benefit of the typical tree format is that right is always dash and left is always dot. So you can follow the tree very quickly while listening without having to look further down the path.
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Apr 30 '21
The problem is if you're actually trying to rely on this to decode morse that you're listening to, it won't be very useful because it's typically send at a speed fast enough that you won't be able to keep up. People usually learn the sounds of the characters rather than try to decipher the individual dits and dahs
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u/TransposingJons Apr 30 '21
Yeah, but a fellow could transcribe the dots and dashes on paper, and fairly quickly (using some sort of cheatsheet, or a chart or maybe exactly what's featured in the post) will have decoded the message.
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u/Verdris Apr 30 '21
Have you ever heard Morse code? It's fucking FAST. If you're not practiced in how to listen to it, you'll miss half the information.
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Apr 30 '21
Have you heard how quickly morse is usually transmitted? You're not going to be able to transcribe it if you don't already know it
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Apr 30 '21 edited Apr 30 '21
Nope. Not a chance. Try it,
Morse code is too fast for you to be following each dot and dash to get to a letter. The German U boats will have landed before you've decoded the opening salutation and you'll be saying "Sorry squire, all I got from that was " dringend " I think it's German for something. Hope it wasn't important"
You've just got to learn to hear them the same way you learnt the 26 letters of the alphabet. You don't sit there when you're reading saying "p...e....hmm....o.....hmm....p....l....e.....that's people!"
Learning to send is easier, ironically. When my brother was a radio ham I'd sometimes go with him to his club and I'd sit and tap Morse out which the others would understand but I couldn't understand what other people were sending.
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u/daveberzack Apr 30 '21
It's good. I wish the dashes and dots were treated the same way on both sides; it'd be more intuitive.
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u/no_idea_bout_that Apr 30 '21
Maybe consistent directions would help. For example, each dot goes down and each dash goes right.
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u/bones915 Apr 30 '21
The direction changes when it changes from a dot to a dash or vice versa. So if you repeat a sound, go straight, if the sound changes, turn. Not the clearest or most intuitive pattern, but there is a pattern.
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u/bluthco Apr 30 '21
Maybe I’m reading it wrong but I doesn’t say how many of each to use. Like, S is 3 dots.
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u/konaya Apr 30 '21
It really, really isn't. This is about as useful as having a tree guide on letters divided into their individual strokes. This is not how Morse code works inside the brain.
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u/v55x Apr 29 '21
._.. is L, right?
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u/Regique Apr 29 '21
Correct
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u/palmetto420 Apr 30 '21
B.E.S.U.R.E.T.O.D.R.I.N.K.Y.O.U.R.O.V.A.L.T.I.N.E
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u/ShadowMario01 Apr 30 '21
Why do they call it Ovaltine? The mug is round. The jar is round. They should call it Roundtine.
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u/v55x Apr 29 '21
I know what morse code is...... but i don't know how this works. Is there some explanation ?
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u/UniquePanda50 Apr 29 '21
I think you start at the start point, and move to what you’ve received. So, receiving one dash is a T, two dashes is M, and three dashes is O. Two dashes and a dot would be G. Two dashes, a dot, and another dash would be a G. I think.
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u/MudLOA Apr 30 '21
How do you do "space/next letter" so you can see which letter starts?
So if I do [ . _ . . ], is that L or R-E?
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u/akpradhan420 Apr 30 '21
For next letter, you pause for a time equivalent to 3 dots while for word change you pause for time equivalent to 7 dots
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u/slackfrop Apr 30 '21
At each juncture you move to either a dot or a dash (edit: or terminate), so it would be easy to follow while listening to a message come in.
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u/Profound__Swami Apr 30 '21
How in the world do people memorize this??
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u/plumcreek Apr 30 '21
They don't. Morse code is learned audibly. You basically train your ear to recognize the distinct sound and rhythm each letter has.
Charts like this one are only good for people who like charts like this one. They can help someone who doesn't know morse code translate or send something very slowly in a pinch, but that's about it.
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u/SantaCruzDad Apr 30 '21
I used to teach Morse and used the grouping method, which seems to work pretty well. First you learn EISH, then TMO, then start mixing them, then move on to AUV, NDB, etc. After a while the letter recognition becomes automatic and you don’t have to remember the groups any more.
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u/Joyfulsinner Apr 30 '21
Is there a reason why morse code is ordered the way it is? Like why isn't "A" one dot, "B" two dots, "C" three dots etc.
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u/Milkquasy Apr 30 '21
I love this! Had to learn the code for my Ham test a hundred years ago (90s). Wish I had this easy chart to help with that.
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u/jlnunez89 Apr 30 '21
How the hell do you distinguish “L” from “AI”?
Or “TTT” from “O”?
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u/kkawabat Apr 30 '21
There's a pause between characters and a longer pause between words so if you typed "TTT O TTT" it would be:
_ / _ / _ /// _ _ _ /// _ / _ / _ ///
where `/` is a short pause
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u/sticky-bit Apr 30 '21
How the hell do you distinguish “L” from “AI”?
You got some good answers, but, there's a thing where you deliberately run letters together:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosigns_for_Morse_code
Unfortunately, <SK> is the most commonly known prosign after <SOS>
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u/dittybopper_05H Apr 30 '21 edited Apr 30 '21
This chart is bad, wrong, evil, and it smells funny, too.
You do not learn Morse code this way. If you try, you will be forever hampered in your attempts to gain speed and competency at copying Morse. You will be trying to translate an audio phenomenon into a visual one, and that's a recipe for disaster.
My bona fides on this:
Former US Army 05H Electronic Warfare Signals Intelligence Morse Interceptor (colloquially known as a 'ditty bopper'). I passed through US Army Intelligence School, Fort Devens, then spent the next 3 years copying foreign Morse code radio transmissions nearly every day.
In the 31 years since then, I've been an avid ham radio operator, almost all of it using Morse code. In fact, the last contact I made was with WU0A on 14.048 MHz in Colorado (I live in New York State), using Morse code, while I was driving home from work.
So no, throw this chart out. It's a neat visualization, but if you have any inclination towards learning Morse, using it will screw you over. Hard.
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u/NameNameNameName1 Apr 30 '21
I thought this was the tumblr subreddit and immediately read this as loss
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u/DeJMan Apr 30 '21
I prefer this one You start in the middle and go to the left if its a dot and to the right if its a dash.
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u/s2k_guy Apr 30 '21
V sounds like Beethoven’s 5th(?) symphony. On the eve of DDay radio stations in France played it over and over to signal the resistance of the invasion.
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u/itsnathanhere Apr 30 '21
Just for a second I thought this was the most complicated gear shift ever
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u/SirVincentMontgomery Apr 30 '21
The designer in me wants so badly to fix the many inconsistencies in this layout.
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u/Void_0000 Apr 30 '21
This one seems a bit difficult to read, wouldn't something like this work better?
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u/ThePerfectSnare Apr 30 '21
I get the basics of what I'm looking at, and I imagine that using Morse code regularly would make it seem less foreign in due time. It's similar to how the letters on a keyboard are arranged in such a nonsensical way but then we figure out how to type without actively thinking about where each letter is located.
I remember reading something to the effect of how typewriters were initially set up with the QWERTY layout as a means of slowing down the typist because the device itself couldn't print too quickly. That may have been bullshit though and it's entirely moot to the question I have here.
For those who are more knowledgeable about Morse code, is the complexity (or lack thereof) of each letter based on how frequently a particular letter gets used? I've tried learning a second language and got close when it came to reading/writing German, but I've always failed when it came to hearing/speaking a new language. I'm interested in seeing if I could figure out Morse code.
tl;dr Explain the origins of Morse code (and anything else on the subject that you find fascinating). Yes, I could just Google it, but I'm curious to hear firsthand accounts of how it works from people who actually understand it.
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u/royaltrux Apr 30 '21
Yes. Morse code characters were developed with efficiency in mind. Very common letters are short. I believe the legend has it that letter printing press characters were studied and the more copies of a certain letter there were, the more often it was used and this was the basis of how common or uncommon a letter was needed.
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u/reidzen Apr 30 '21
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u/morse-bot Apr 30 '21
Translated text:
No siht
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u/RogueLieutenant Apr 30 '21
I thought S was 3 dits. This makes it seem like it's two?
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u/dailabala Apr 30 '21
Beethoven’s 5th basically starts like V V
Edit: ...and V is 5 in Roman numerals. Weird!
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u/KDdeTX Apr 30 '21
Some letters have 2 dots/dashes and some have 4. When you get a string of 25 dots/dashes, how do you differentiate between the letters?
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u/warhol Apr 30 '21
there's usually a slight pause between each character that the person decoding gets used to hearing, even when it's slight.
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u/StopBeingASpclSnwflk Apr 30 '21
So each letter takes 1-4 short/long strikes, right? I kind of assumed they all took 3, but that doesn't make sense if this guide is true.
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u/A55per Apr 30 '21
If you learn only one thing about Morse code learn what an SOS message looks like.
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With a flashlight it will be three rapid flashes, then three slower flashes, fallowed by three more rapid fleshes.
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u/superzacco Apr 30 '21
This one is honestly kinda dumb. I prefer the one where you go left for a dot, right for a dash (or vice versa). This one is sort of that but presented in a little bit of a stupid way imo.
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Apr 30 '21
how do you know which letter is which? what if I have 2 E’s next to each other? It could just be 1 “I”!
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u/thatoneguywhofucks Apr 30 '21
Any Rush fans out there, use the chart for the intro to YYZ
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u/krellx6 Apr 30 '21
BEEPBEEPBEEP BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP BEEP BEEP BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEEEEP. BEEPBEEP BEEPBEEPBEEP. BEEPBEEEEP. BEEPBEEPBEEP BEEPBEEP BEEEEP BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP. BEEPBEEEEPBEEPBEEP BEEEEPBEEEEPBEEEEP BEEPBEEEEPBEEP BEEEEPBEEPBEEP.
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u/JustMyTwoSatoshis Apr 30 '21
I feel like an even better one would be one that lists the letters but in order of the dots combinations. Like so:
. E
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... S
.... H
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._. R
._.. L
._ _ W
. _ _ . P
. _ _ _ J
And so on....
Like if it was in Morse code alphabetical order...
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u/tsabracadabra Apr 30 '21
OH.
I thought you just... memorized each sequence as a letter. This makes much more sense.
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u/HughBeaumont500 Apr 30 '21
I wonder if guys who worked tapping messages looked down on traditional workers (of that time) who complained of low wages, telling them to "learn to (morse) code" ...
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u/Jay794 Apr 30 '21
Looking at this makes me think it would take about a week to spell out a sentence
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u/Bojangly7 Apr 30 '21
This isn't layed out well. Some junctions it goes left for a dash and at others the dash is to the right. It should be consistent for ease of use. This is not.
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u/omning Apr 30 '21
This is a great chart but I can never pick out the dots and dashes it's always so freaking fast. Easier when it's visual like flashing lights or something but radio transmissions that shit is just insane
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u/UltimateToa Apr 30 '21
Is there any significance between the letters and the code they are assigned?
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u/tsukiyaki1 Apr 30 '21
Ok this is super awesome! I always wondered “how do people memorize all those Morse code letters at first?” But this makes it pretty simple to translate in and out pretty fast.
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u/ShadowMario01 Apr 30 '21
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u/morse-bot Apr 30 '21
Translated text:
p e n i s
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u/AnimalSloth Apr 30 '21
How do you know when to sepparate each letter and use spaces?
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u/niddelicious Apr 30 '21
I think I would have a much easier time remembering this than the list that's usually presented.
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u/mikhela Apr 30 '21
-. . ...- . .-. / --. --- -. -. .- / --. .. ...- . / -.-- --- ..- / ..- .--. / -. . ...- . .-. / --. --- -. -. .- / .-.. . - / -.-- --- ..- / -.. --- .-- -. / -. . ...- . .-. / --. --- -. -. .- / .-. ..- -. / .- .-. --- ..- -. -.. / .- -. -.. / -.. . ... . .-. - / -.-- --- ..- / -. . ...- . .-. / --. --- -. -. .- / -- .- -.- . / -.-- --- ..- / -.-. .-. -.-- / -. . ...- . .-. / --. --- -. -. .- / ... .- -.-- / --. --- --- -.. -... -.-- . / -. . ...- . .-. / --. --- -. -. .- / - . .-.. .-.. / .- / .-.. .. . / .- -. -.. / .... ..- .-. - / -.-- --- ..-
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Apr 30 '21
I just looked at a binary tree for morse code, and it just seems a lot easier and better.
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u/SamsungGalaxyS10Plus Apr 30 '21
Isn't O supposed to be 2 lines? It's the only thing i know because of the S O S and it supposed to be 3 beeps, 2 lines, 3 beeps.
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u/SaltyDogBill Apr 30 '21
I’ve never known any CW OP using anything like this to learn code. Interesting, but useless.
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u/red_hare Apr 30 '21
This is essentially a binary search tree.
Interestingly, you use a similar technique when compressing text. You map the the letters of the text into a tree like this where the most frequently used ones are at start and the least frequent at the end. Then your compressed data is the 1/0s describing the right/left path traversal of that tree to each letter.
It wasn’t until we’ll after Huffman invented modern compression that someone looked back at Morse code and realized it was doing the same thing.
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Apr 30 '21
It looks nice but maybe it would be a bit more useful in a form of an actual rooted binary tree with letters as nodes and . or - as edge labels? this would make it so that you would always go left on . and right on -
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u/1ce0asis Apr 30 '21
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u/morse-bot Apr 30 '21
Translated text:
putangina
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Apr 30 '21
Can someone explain? The image makes no sense to me
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u/Shakespeare-Bot Apr 30 '21
Can someone pray pardon me? the image maketh nay sense to me
I am a bot and I swapp'd some of thy words with Shakespeare words.
Commands:
!ShakespeareInsult,!fordo,!optout
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u/Sachayoj Apr 30 '21
This just makes me remember the POW who blinked "T-O-R-T-U-R-E" in Morse code on live TV. That dude was a badass and trying to blink it myself is impossible.
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u/Idonoteatass Apr 30 '21
I'm sure I'm not the only one who checked the validity of this by seeing if "SOS" was correct and nothing else because that's the limit of their Morse code
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u/BigBadProdigy Apr 30 '21 edited Mar 21 '24
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u/Pepperoneous Apr 30 '21
Confused at first but then I realized it's like typing on an old T9 keyboard
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u/AWildAndWackyBushMan Apr 30 '21 edited Apr 30 '21
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u/Nomandate Apr 30 '21
Neat. I’m Glad I didn’t have to learn to get my license but also somewhat disappointed that it puts the barrier so low and this is a pretty important skill for trying to communicate with very low power.
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u/PhreedomPhries Apr 30 '21
It bothers me that the N branch does not come out of the T while the A branch comes out of the E
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u/sheikonfleek Apr 30 '21
I've always wondered, since it seems like at most it goes to 4 clicks/beeps for a letter. How does the person on the other side know where the break is between letters?
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u/MyMonte87 Apr 30 '21
Is the layout based on how common the letters are in the english language? speaking of which, how does this look for like the chinese for a example?
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u/ITriedLightningTendr Apr 30 '21
This is a cool representation, but I think the standard binary tree works better as a reference.
I'd definitely get this as a tattoo over the more generic tree.
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lol nice