[MacLoggerContest] Fun with theology

Chuck Counselman ccc at space.mit.edu
Sun Mar 13 20:58:00 EST 2005


Bill Coleman <aa4lr at mac.com> wrote:
>... the standard word is 50 elements long....


Thanks.  I'm beginning to understand why theology was so popular in 
the Middle Ages.  You know -- when they worried about how many angels 
could dance on the head of a pin.

Don says 48.

I said 52.

You say 50.

Answers.com says "up to" 49.

I bet Google can find me a statement that it's "at least" 49.  :-)

No wonder the World Radiocommunication Conference of 2003 decided to 
throw the whole thing out.

BTW, a nice history of Morse code appears at 
<http://www.answers.com/topic/morse-code>.  (Scroll way down to get 
to it.)


73 de Chuck W1HIS




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