• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I never realized morse code was organized as a binary tree, this makes it much faster to figure out which letter the code meant

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      1 year ago

      I think if you take any set of symbols and map each one to a unique binary sequence, you can then structure it as a binary tree.

      In other words Morse didn’t have to be designed as a tree. The tree is just a data structure that fits any similar abstraction. You could probably do something similar with a multidimensional array (5D to include punctuation) but that’s much harder to illustrate.

  • cdf12345@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is also an extremely difficult way to learn Morse code. No one that actually knows Morse code will ever use a chart like this in their thinking and listening pattern.

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      1 year ago

      You’re right, and your post needs to be seen more. Learn Morse audibly, not visually. Whenever I see someone post about these charts it instantly tells me that they don’t actually use Morse.

      Learning Morse visually means you have to decode it with more steps:

      hear code --> visualise the sound --> decode to letter

      Decoding by ear is the fastest way, and is the way that Morse operators decode it (eventually you just hear words).

      hear code --> decode to letter.

      Here is a useful website for learning Morse code: https://lcwo.net/

      • m0darn@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        There’s also Morse Trainer on f-droid for those that are app inclined.