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Morse Code Decoder Chart (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] ccunning 5 points 5 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.

[–] avguser 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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

[–] Wild_Mastic 6 points 5 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?

[–] ccunning 4 points 5 months ago

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

[–] mojofrododojo 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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