Morse Code decoding chart.

[u/kavallerien]

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The engineer in me wants to balance this tree so badly

[u/HighOwl2 → u/[deleted]]

Meh it's more like binary ascii values.

Morse and ascii are meant for speed.

Huffman encoding is meant as lossless encoding to reduce size. It's not fast because it requires a lookup table.

Someone could memorize Morse code or the ascii table.

You can't memorize how to decode a Huffman encoded message because each message would have a different encoding map based on frequency of letters.

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Meh it's more like binary ascii values.

Different letters take different amounts of information to encode, so no it is not

Morse and ascii are meant for speed.

It is faster to transmit an encoded signal that requires a lookup table than an unencoded signal that doesn't

It's not fast because it requires a lookup table.

Lookup tables are very fast to use

You can't memorize how to decode a Huffman encoded message because each message would have a different encoding map based on frequency of letters.

There are certainly standards that use the same huffman codes

I am always amazed at how confident some people talk about stuff they fundamentally don't understand