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Any property Advantageous properties of 4 letter alphabet (in the DNADNA)?

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Any property of 4 letter alphabet in the DNA

As you know DNA is composed of strings of 4 letters. I am wondering if the number 4 here has any significance? Any property of 4 that makes using 4 letters more advantageous over more (or less) letters to encode information?