Frank and Ernest by Thaves for July 18, 2024

Does binary mean purchase nothing?

Morse actually is trinary. It has three elements – dot, dash, pause.

01100010 01101001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01110011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01111001 00101100 00100000 01101101 01100101 01110100 01100001 01101100 00100000 01100001 01110011 01110011 00100001

How long we got?

I got my Extra class ham radio license with only five words a minute of code. When the FCC stopped requiring code (2007), everyone who got their extra class license without code were called “Extra Lite”.

Just a sec, let pull out my cell phone and I’ll report this event to the 6 o’clock news.

And not a moment of re-Morse.

There only 10 kinds of people in the world. People who understand binary code and people who don’t

Morse will put a hexadecimal on them….!

640k ought to be enough for anybody.

An tremendous number of outcomes would have been drastically changed without that code.

So, basically the telegraph was non-binary?

I thought non binary was someone who did not get asked out a lot or have much of a social life.

when AI takes over – I’ll ask them IF I can get back to you to answer your question.

WTF.B.

Most people have heard of acronyms — pronounceable words comprising the initials of phrases. Examples include SCUBA (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus); ROY G. BIV for the colors of the rainbow; PEMDAS for the order of mathematical operations (parentheses, exponentiation, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction); LASER (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation); SNAFU, the soldier’s lament at the workings of fate; TANSTAAFL, Heinlein’s alert that everything has a price; and the barely wordish PRNDL for your automatic gearshift.

Then there’s the reverse of that — phrases intended to help you remember a sequence of letters. There’s the astronomer’s “Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me Right Now, Smack” (a mnemonic for the spectral classification of stars) as well as “Every Good Boy Does Fine”, which represents the lines in the musical notation for the treble clef. The spaces don’t need a phrase, since they spell FACE. However, in the bass clef we needed “All Cars Eat Gas” back before electric cars and now we use “All Cows Eat Grass” for the spaces and “Grandma Bakes Donuts Friday Afternoon” for the lines.

Finally there’s the case of made-up words (not phrases) to help you remember sequences of letters. There aren’t very many of these. The most familiar are QWERTYUIOP for the top row of the Sholes keyboard, the typographer’s ETAOIN SHRDLU for the most common letters in English, and GAPaG T. ReX for the movie-rating system. To this select list we can add the telegrapher’s EISHTMOAN, which requires some ’splainin’:

E •

I • •

S • • •

H • • • •

T –

M – –

O – – –

A • –

N – •

One of the best.

There are 10 types of people; those who understand binary and those who don’t.

Zero!