What is the difference between Morse code and binary?

Morse code is actually a trinary coding system. 1. There is the dot. 2. There is the dash - nominally three times as long as a dot. 3. Then there is the space between them. read more

Morse code is actually a trinary coding system. There is the dot. There is the dash - nominally three times as long as a dot. Then there is the space between them. Without that third entry, you would be unable to tell the difference between a dot and a dash - they would just run on together. read more

Morse code is a prefix ternary code (for encoding 58 characters) on top of a prefix binary code encoding the three symbols. This was a much shorter answer when accepted. However, considering the considerable misunderstandings between users, and following a request from the OP, I wrote this much longer answer. read more

• Binary code is a general term used for a method of encoding characters or instructions, but ASCII is only one of the globally accepted conventions of encoding characters, and was the most commonly used binary encoding scheme for more than three decades. read more