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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 75 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

They have 13 phrases. Could have kept to combination of 3 digits of dots and dashes and still have one slot left over.

  1. .
  2. -
  3. ..
  4. .-
  5. -.
  6. --
  7. ...
  8. ..-
  9. .-.
  10. .--
  11. -..
  12. -.-
  13. --.
  14. ---

If it isn't obvious, I don't have daughters.

[–] stangel@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago

Obviously we need to teach them Huffman encoding

[–] threeonefour@piefed.ca 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They could also just use Knock Code which is a simple way to encode letters as knocks to send arbitrary messages. Most often used by prisoners since it's easy to learn.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Last knock kant be detected to be long or short (right?) so you have to redo it.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The girls' codes do rely on that though

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Yes it's broken too 😁

[–] four@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You can just add a short knock to the end of every sequence, that should remove any ambiguity

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

How do you know it’s a short knock at the end and not just a super long knock

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

But is that the most efficient 🧐? (Probably)

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

3 and 7 are the same sequence. 8 and 11 are a sequence of 4

EDIT: I looked closer and realized these could be explained by simple typos; 3 would be .., 7 is not a typo, 8 would be ..-, and 11 would be -..