• @ccunning
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    58 months ago

    This is awesome.

    If anyone could explain the reasoning behind it; that would be even more awesome. It always just seemed random to me.

    • @avguser
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      8 months ago

      It’s effectively a Huffman tree based off the frequency letters occur in the English language used to minimize the overall symbol length duration of each letter in a message.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      8 months ago

      If anyone could explain the reasoning behind it

      The reason behind morse code? It was created to transfer messages through telegraphs

      • @Wild_Mastic
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        68 months ago

        Pretty sure he means the dot and dash combinations. As in, why ‘A’ is not dot, since it’s the first letter of the alphabet?

        • @ccunning
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          48 months ago

          This is what I mean and am only now realizing I phrased very poorly…

      • @mojofrododojo
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        8 months ago

        I think he meant on how the chart is used.

        as in, start at the wheel, if the first sound is a dot, go left, if it’s a dash, go right. second sound etc

        I think this one is easier to read: https://lemmy.world/post/14922746