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Technology

Based on an encoding schema, where in literal words represent digital data.

Human factor

  1. It is much easier to deal with legitimate words rather than a collection of random characters
    hdkjhg54lhjhdApple Mango Africa
  2. A set of unrelated nouns is simpler than a sequence with words from different parts of speech
    Apple Mango Bridgeapple away an doctor the day keeps a

Reduction

The greater the number of individual symbols used - the smaller the resultant code.
Comparison
BaseDecBinHex
Digits10216
Symbols0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
   
Ex. 171117
Digits131
   
Ex. 2151111F
Digits241

Mapping

  • A sequence of bits is mapped to individual words ( e.g. 1011011011 : Apple )
  • Those words are from a list of 1K (1024) carefully chosen nouns
  • Since 210 = 1024, the length of these sequences is 10 bits
Illustration
DataAn Apple a day
ASCII
A0x41
n0x6E
......
Hex41 6E 20 41 70 70 6C 65 20 61 20 64 61 79
Binary0100 0001 0111 0000 0111 0000 0110 1100 ...
WCode
Cat0100000101
Coffee1100000111
......
WCodeCat Coffee Mango Apple ...