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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm guessing you're saying that because of the pauses? Otherwise I don't get it.

[–] jungle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, the space is a necessary symbol in Morse code, otherwise it's impossible to decode.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes sense. I remember asking myself whether Morse was a form of Huffman encoding back when I was learning that stuff. And it kinda is going for that, but without actually doing it properly since it wasn't a binary code per se and so could use the pauses. "Ternary" makes sense.

[–] jungle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Right, Morse was actually mentioned as an example when I was learning Huffman encoding. :)

[–] BlackRose@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)