Each pair is either AT or GC.  

So 2^3000000000 will give me the number of possible combinations, right?


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no, each pair is AT, TA, GC, or CG

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That actually matters?

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You create your past.

Post edited at 11:24 pm on June 25, 2008 by emmy350

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Quote: from hithere at 3:22 am on June 26, 2008

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no, each pair is AT, TA, GC, or CG

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That actually matters?

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Quote: from hithere at 3:22 am on June 26, 2008

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no, each pair is AT, TA, GC, or CG

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That actually matters?

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yes, it does.

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Quote: from shadowpool at 11:23 pm on June 25, 2008

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Quote: from hithere at 3:22 am on June 26, 2008

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no, each pair is AT, TA, GC, or CG

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 That actually matters?

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yeah, you have two strands, buddy. one base on either strand.

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Goodness, that's right!  

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So it would just be 4^3000000000 that should give you the possible numbers.

Then again, I wonder if that's exactly correct, because with a different combination, we wouldn't exactly be human any more, would we?  I mean... from human to human, the majority of the strand is the same.  Even in monkeys, we don't differ in terms of DNA by that much... most of the code is very similar.  That being said, there really aren't tht many combinations, as there has to be some of it that can't really be changed, right?

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There are four, as hithere said... AT, TA, GC, CG. Makes a huge difference, between the pairs bond up like this, but it's one individual strand, that can have A, T, G, or C that makes up the DNA (The second strand just matches up the pairs).

So it would just be 4^3000000000 that should give you the possible numbers.

Then again, I wonder if that's exactly correct, because with a different combination, we wouldn't exactly be human any more, would we? I mean... from human to human, the majority of the strand is the same. Even in monkeys, we don't differ in terms of DNA by that much... most of the code is very similar. That being said, there really aren't tht many combinations, as there has to be some of it that can't really be changed, right?

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I was just curious about the storage capacity of the human genome.  

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So four to the three billion. My computer will be up all night calculating this one.

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Use a recursive function.  It'll work perfectly!

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Quote: from shadowpool at 11:27 pm on June 25, 2008

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So four to the three billion. My computer will be up all night calculating this one.

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Use a recursive function.  It'll work perfectly!

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I'm attempting to use qalc which is an arbitrary precision calculator. Hopefully 2gb of ram is enough.

Post edited at 11:38 pm on June 25, 2008 by shadowpool

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I was just curious about the storage capacity of the human genome.

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Curiousity crashed the computer :P.

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Quote: from shadowpool at 11:33 pm on June 25, 2008

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 I was just curious about the storage capacity of the human genome.  

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Curiousity crashed the computer :P.

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Almost.

"mike@evilpenguin:~$ qalc -t 4^3000000000 > answer.txt
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'cln::runtime_exception'
 what():  Out of virtual memory.
Aborted"

Hmmm.  I will find a way to calculate this number!


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Quote: from Just Waiting Here at 3:50 am on June 26, 2008

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Quote: from shadowpool at 11:33 pm on June 25, 2008

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  I was just curious about the storage capacity of the human genome.

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 Curiousity crashed the computer :P.

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Almost.

"mike@evilpenguin:~$ qalc -t 4^3000000000 > answer.txt
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'cln::runtime_exception'
  what(): Out of virtual memory.
Aborted"

Hmmm. I will find a way to calculate this number!

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Lol, the best I could get is...

1125899906842624^1171875

LOL.