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Aardwolf on Sept 26, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Four Column ASCII (2017)

I always wondered why A and a start one further than the beginning of their column (with @ and ` before them), any ideas?

dmytroi on Sept 26, 2019 [–]

I guess that is an artifact of 5 bit encoding (invented in 19 century), as all zeros define NULL, see [0].

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code

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