[Boatanchors] Letter Q
Al Klase
ark at ar88.net
Sat Feb 10 16:34:39 EST 2018
Ron,
I guess I didn't know that specifically, but I do know that Morse laid
out his code based on a study of letter frequency in English. So Q and Y
take up 13 bit times, where as frequently used letter like E, I, and T
are short.
Al
On 2/10/2018 3:45 PM, Ron.K3PID wrote:
> One of the daily feeds that I get always has a cute little factoid. Yesterday’s was”Did you know that Q is the least frequently used letter?” hmmm I guess they didn’t include us hams in that study!
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> Ron K3PID
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Al Klase – N3FRQ
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