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Binary is just morse in Mashine readable Form.

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I was gonna say “like, kind of” because of Morse code.

Ya beat me to it bro

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Not really, Morse code is not binary, but tertiary.

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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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You can do it with three symbols:

  1. Dot: 10
  2. Dash: 1110
  3. Gap: 00

The long gap between words is just three short gaps.

There’s a Vsauce video about this: https://youtu.be/HY_OIwideLg

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I’m guessing you’re saying that because of the pauses? Otherwise I don’t get it.

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Yes, the space is a necessary symbol in Morse code, otherwise it’s impossible to decode.

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Unless I’m mistaken I would say that it’s the other way around, Morse code is more like a human readable machine language expressed in binary because the 26 character alphabet is expressed in different binary values, much like ASCII.

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