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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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! !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6

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! 1

| 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

|}

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]]'' in 2012, 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.

In the 2015 video game ''[[Her Story (video game)|Her Story]]'', the main characters use the tap code to surreptitiously communicate.

In Season 2 Episode 14 of ''[[The Flash (2014 TV series)|The Flash]]'' in 2016, the masked prisoner in Zoom's lair uses the tap code to try to communicate with the others.

In the 2021 film ''[[The Ice Road]]'', the tap code is used on a metal pipe conduit by trapped miners to communicate with executives of the mining company.

In the television show ''[[Breaking Bad]]'', the character [[Hector Salamanca]] uses the version of a tap code shown in this section to communicate after suffering a [[stroke]].

In an ARG for [[Cool Math Games]], (See Game Theory for more information), a tap code was used twice, once in pair with another cypher to solve and discover lore.

==See also==