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netic code system with the aid of several simple analogies. The interna-
tionally recognized distress call is "S O S."
This call contains information within a coded phrase, which may also be
expressed as: . . . - - -. . . The dots and dashes represent the two letters of
Morse code. . . . is equivalent to our letter "S" and - - - to our "O." We can
store or transmit the Morse alphabet in various manners. For example,
the letters can be retained on paper, written on a birthday cake with cake
icing, or an airplane could write [them]. The message and the information
remain the same, namely "S O S," in whatever medium they are transmit-

ted or stored. The dots and dashes of the Morse code might even be knot-
ted on a string, the dash being represented as a larger knot and the dot as
a smaller knot. In this last case, no paper surface is required to relay the
message contained in the Morse code, the dimension of only a simple
piece of string will suffice. By means of a system of this type. a string car-
rying single knots and double knots (= dashes) could be used to "write"
and to store Goethe's Faust. 68
As set out above, the information content is independent of its
mode of transmission. Therefore, not just the arrangement of the bases