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Comment by avian

> The problem with this is that it's prone to error (doesn't have error correcting bits

Doesn't the use of the latin alphabet act a bit like an error correction code here? In contrast to a pure binary code you know that only certain shapes are valid, which should allow you to do some guessing if you don't get a perfect match.

parent avian 7 years ago

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