2007-02-04 06:10:18 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Common letters are easier than the hard ones.
If you watch Wheel of Fortune, they have nailed them down to R,S,T,L,N,E. Unfortuntately back then they used a different method to determine the most common lettter.
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Z --..
2007-02-04 08:30:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christoph got it. The story I was told as a kid was that Morse took a book in English and counted the letter frequencies. He then assigned the shortest codes to the most common letters. In English, that is. If you like, you may consider it the first electrical form of data compression, pre-dating MP3 and JPEG by a lot.
2007-02-06 04:43:31 · answer #2 · answered by ZORCH 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there doesn't appear to be a rhyme or reason as to why the dots and dashes combination for a particular letter. all i found is that the more common letters were given the shortest combinations. other than that i could not find anything.
2007-02-04 14:31:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, its very specific, for instance, and SOS is done as follows:
2007-02-04 14:27:46
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answered by david w 1
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(keep in mind that -
If it were random, how would someone decode it????? OF course there is a logical code order..
2007-02-04 14:18:29 · answer #5 · answered by chazzer 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what i think is ,it doen't seem to have a pattern
2014-02-08 05:28:34 · answer #6 · answered by Asad Chaudhry 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋