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Re:Learning Morse code in the 21st century by toomanybeersies on Monday December 23, 2019 @10:06PM (#21869526)
Morse code isn't binary, it's trinary.

You have 3 signals: dots, dashes, and spaces.

Here's the relevant extract from the wikipedia article on Morse Code:

> Each Morse code symbol is formed by a sequence of dots and dashes. The dot duration is the basic unit of time measurement in Morse code transmission. The duration of a dash is three times the duration of a dot. Each dot or dash within a character is followed by period of signal absence, called a space, equal to the dot duration. The letters of a word are separated by a space of duration equal to three dots, and the words are separated by a space equal to seven dots

Re:Learning Morse code in the 21st century by thepete2 on Monday December 23, 2019 @11:26PM (#21869861)
You can represent it as both binary and ternary

R is: .-. (dit dah dit)

which could be 121 in ternary (0 being pause)

or 1011101 in binary, since one dah is three dits long

Re:Learning Morse code in the 21st century by dilutedh2o on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @01:03AM (#21870200)
In that case we may as well use the alphabet tbh