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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is awesome.

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

If anyone could explain the reasoning behind it

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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