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Get nymph; quiz sad brow; fix luck (i, u used twice, j, vomitted).In a competition held by the “Society for the German Language”,long single words with no repetitions of letters were submitted.The winner, comprising 24 letters, was:Heizölrückstoßabdämpfung (note that a and ä for example, areregarded as different letters because they represent differentsounds)There is only one sufficient condition (SC) for establishingwhether a given set of symbols is a code:SC 1: It can be decoded successfully and meaningfully (e. g. hieroglyphicsand the genetic code).There are also sufficient conditions for showing that we are NOTdealing with a code system. A sequence of symbols cannot be acode, ifa) it can be explained fully on the level of physics and chemistry,i. e. when its origin is exclusively of a material nature.Example: The periodic signals received in 1967 by the Britishastronomers J. Bell and A. Hewish, where thought to be codedmessages from space sent by “little green men”. It was, however,eventually established that this “message” had a purely physicalorigin, and a new type of star was discovered: pulsars,orb) it is known to be a random sequence (e. g. when its origin isknown or communicated). This conclusion also holds when thesequence randomly contains valid symbols from any other code.A German example:– Quer vorm Jagdplatz mixt Baby Klöße für Schwäne. (40 letters)A French example:– Voyez le brick geant que j’examine près du wharf. (39 letters)63