The quote "...Patterns of beats. Yes, yes, no, no, no, yes, yes." could be specifying a binary number. In standard 7-bit ASCII, 1100011 is a lower-case 'c'. It's also the binary version of decimal 99.
Not that that helps much.
-John
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