• BlackRose@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    I’d say it’s quinary but can easily be represented binarily

    1. short mark, dot or dit ( ▄ ): 1

    2. longer mark, dash or dah ( ▄▄▄ ): 111

    3. intra-character gap (between the dits and dahs within a character): 0

    4. short gap (between letters): 000

    5. medium gap (between words): 0000000

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            1 year ago

            Optimized to use less symbols by combining them (long gap between words is just three short gaps). I also think if a sentence ends, there would be the unnessecary 0 from the dots and Dashes at the end.

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              Yeah, that extra 0 also irks me, it’s the typical issue when concatenating words, that requires a trim() at the end.

              But it’s not an issue in terms of showing that you need three symbols to represent Morse code.