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{{Short description|Encoding for text messages}}

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== History ==

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|+ colspan=7| '''Russian alphabet tap code'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://faroutliers.blogspot.com/2005/04/russian-prison-tapping-code.html|title=Far Outliers: Russian Prison Tapping Code|date=April 14, 2005|access-date=August 8, 2014|archive-date=August 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140815063344/http://faroutliers.blogspot.com/2005/04/russian-prison-tapping-code.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

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== In popular culture ==

In the 1990 video game ''[[Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake]]'', the tap code is used by Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar to communicate to ''[[Solid Snake]]'' through a cell wall.

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| colspan=7| '''''[[Breaking Bad]]'' alphanumeric tap code'''

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| А || B || C || D || 1 || 2

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! 2

| E || F || G || H || 3 || 4

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! 3

| I || J || K || L || M || N

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! 4

| O || P || Q || R || S || T

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! 5

| U || V || W || X || Y || Z

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! 6

| 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 0

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In the video game ''[[Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake]]'', the tap code is used by Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar to communicate to ''[[Solid Snake]]'' through a cell wall.

In Season 2 Episode 2 of ''[[Person of Interest (TV series)|Person of Interest]]'', the tap code is used by Harold Finch to discreetly leave breadcrumbs of his ___location to John Reese by encoding his ___location as tap code on a telephone.

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