• cdf12345@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    This is cool to look at but its worthless to use to learn Morse code. Actually learning requires recognizing audio patterns not quickly translating characters into words from a flowchart.

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    How does one distinguish between “Tea” and “X”?

    Both are dash dot dot dash.

    Are there gaps between words or letters?

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      International Morse code is composed of five elements:

      • short mark, dot or dit: “dit duration” is one time unit long
      • long mark, dash or dah: three time units long
      • inter-element gap between the dits and dahs within a character: one dot duration or one unit long
      • short gap (between letters): three time units long
      • medium gap (between words): seven time units long (formerly five)
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        So in between every sound is a silent dot, between letter a silent dash, and every word ~2 silent dashes

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    7 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.

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      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.

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      7 months ago

      If anyone could explain the reasoning behind it

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