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Not everything you've said is true, check your assumptions.

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

FYI - the Kata kyu level is assigned (not by me) when the Kata is first approved. Once set it cannot be altered.

It's a combination if statement and goto. When the first argument is equal to zero, "jnz" does nothing. Some examples:

"jnz 1 0"
This code is an infinite loop: the "if" is always 1, which is not zero. The jump is to itself!

"dec x"
"jnz 1 -1"
Also an infinite loop, with the side effect of subtracting 1 from x every time through the loop

"mov x 3"
"dec x"
"jnz x -1"
This loop triggers twice: once with x=2 and once with x=1. When x=0, "jnz" does nothing, and the program ends.

Hope those examples help.

Also if you have trouble discerning if the particular sequence of 1's is a dot or a dash, assume it's a dot.

It's already in the kata description.

You mean, described? Like, in the way it's um... described, in the description? Or you maybe mean something else?