Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 22:55:43 04/20/05
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On April 20, 2005 at 19:58:50, Dann Corbit wrote: >On April 20, 2005 at 17:02:13, Dieter Buerssner wrote: > >>On April 20, 2005 at 15:46:00, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>> BTW, isn't DNA base 4? If so, not an unreasonable idea I would say. >> >>I think, more or less it is base 4 - actually only less. (Normally) there are >>only 20 (or so) different base 4 triplets in DNA. > >he means C-T-A-G for the fundamental items (4 different kinds). Yes, of course. But it does not use all possible numbers. A 3 "digit" number could have 0-63; but nature only uses 20 different 3 digit numbers. BTW, my very rough estimation: per digit DNA may use dimensions of 0.3 nm * 0.5 nm * 1 nm per digit. Beause of the topology of all the digits connected together, it should be more. Dieter
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