John Wilcock scripsit:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:56:37 -0700 (PDT), schererm@us.ibm.com wrote:
> > if we count down in the bits for the encoding (baudot, braille), then how about
> > morse code? does that count as a single-bit encoding?
> > :-)
>
> Wouldn't morse be classified as a variable-length ternary encoding?
> Anyone got a ternary computer??!
Intercal (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/intercal) now supports
programming in bases 3 to 7, with appropriate extra logical
operators besides unary AND and unary OR.
Perhaps we need two new characters for Unicode 4.0,
MORSE SIGNAL DIT and MORSE SIGNAL DAH.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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