Question 16.99

69. Form all possible strings consisting of exactly three ’s and two ’s and arrange the strings in alphabetical order. (For example, the first two possibilities are aaabb and aabab.) Do you see any relationship between your list and the Postnet code?

69.

If you replace each short bar in the bar code table by an and replace each long bar in the bar code table by a , the resulting strings are listed in alphabetical order.