ABSTRACT

Harvard University, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA (Permanent address: The Rugjer BoSkovic Institute, P.O.B. 180,

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G. Rucker and C. Rucker Department of Mathematics, University of Bayreuth,

D-95440 Bayreuth, Federal Republic of Germany

Measuring complexity in chemical systems, biological organisms or even poetry requires the counting o f things.