The other night I was watching some videos by 2 Youtube channels I really like. The first one was Tom Scott’s video on why the Prime Meridian isn’t exactly at 0 degrees. I noticed that he happened to be filming from the same exact place that my profile photo for all my social accounts (including medium) are taken. It was a fun coincidence and it was also nice to know I had visited the Prime Meridian without knowing it.

The next video I watched was by the other Youtube channel I enjoy, Vsauce. It was on Morse Code. There was another fun coincidence in this video as well. In the very beginning, he defines what a palindrome is, and uses ‘racecar’ as an example. his explanation was almost word for word how I described it in my previous blog post on the 2 parts of solving an algorithm. It was weird seeing something I had just studied and written about, pop up again soon after.

I continued watching his video and he explained some interesting history and facts about morse code. In Morse Code, every character is made up of a combination of dots ‘.’ and dashes ‘-’. He explained that it was developed so the most common characters had the simplest or shortest make-up in morse code.

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