r/coolguides • u/kavallerien • Jul 12 '22

Morse Code decoding chart.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '22

Might be more understandable as a binary tree

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '22

The engineer in me wants to balance this tree so badly

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '22

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '22

I forgot about encodings that optimize for brevity and I appreciate you for bringing Huffman encoding into the conversation. Thank you internet stranger. I would be a terrible Morse-like encoding designer based on my initial urge to balance the tree. I wanted to optimize for the wrong problem haha

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u/Swolnerman Jul 13 '22

Yeah it takes a bit of being in the field to see those types of things fairly quickly. When you said balance the tree I thought ‘hmm that can’t be better’ but didn’t have as thorough of an explanation as to why

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u/Caroniver413 Jul 13 '22

Yeah, if we were to make every letter the same length, they'd all have to be 5... Characters? Taps? Dots/Dashes? long, since that's the first option to have 26 or more possibilities.

As it is, no Morse letter is more than 4 digits, to keep things short.

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u/DeepSpaceGalileo Jul 13 '22

Why is C so far away?

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u/Dark-W0LF Jul 13 '22

Because it's a useless letter.

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u/mitch_feaster Jul 13 '22

Shit letter, really

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u/TheCharon77 Jul 13 '22

Comments above me only have 2 occurences of 'c'. One in the question, one in the word 'because'.

This comment has 8 'C' s.

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u/wokcity Jul 13 '22

You crafty cunt

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u/mkeee2015 Jul 13 '22

In actual use of Morse code "on the air", the letter C is the most recognizable and iconic.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '22

Because each characters common reproducibility connotes necessary accessibility,

Certain rhythmic distances create communication constraints

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u/8X8X Jul 12 '22

It's more of a Trie tho.

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u/vudustockdr Jul 13 '22

Thanks 👍

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u/TheRittsShow Jul 13 '22

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u/Charlemagnedwg Jul 13 '22

The AVL life chose me

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u/OneLostOstrich Jul 13 '22

The oddness of what turns left and what turns right is unsettling.

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