5 ms·

> What??? What what? Do you disagree? Back of the envelope-wise (depending on their definition of "digital data"), that seems to be about within two or three

by ci5er 9y ago

> What??? What what? Do you disagree? Back of the envelope-wise (depending on their definition of "digital data"), that seems to be about within two or three zeroes of correct, no?

EGreg 9y ago
It seems outlandish.
- ci5er 9y ago
  Well, the 2.9 billion base pairs of the haploid human genome correspond to a maximum of about 725 megabytes of data, since every base pair can be coded by 2 bits. That's pretty dense.