• ccunning@lemmy.world
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    6 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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      6 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.

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      6 months ago

      If anyone could explain the reasoning behind it

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