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Re: LOGO-L> Language vs Visual



In-Reply-To: <199707202050.QAA01132@moose.ncia.net>
Tom woods wrote:

> With morse, any sentence can be scrambled into nonsense by ignoring 
> spaces,
> but here's one I came up with:

  E  R   R   O   R
  . .-. .-. --- .-.

 I  N      A      W   C
..  -.    .-     .--  -.-.


> In both, the same sequence of dits and dahs, but different spacing.

The same is true of binary - which is why we work in bytes etc. and use 
conventions like stop and start bits... and then there are the file 
headers which tell you what sort of coding convention is used, so the 
computer plays the tune and not try to display a picture. 

Micheal O Duill

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