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I’m also failing to see how digit efficiency would be important in DNA. In fact, it seems that a high base system would be more efficient. If you had 80 nucleob
by pythonguython 3y ago
I’m also failing to see how digit efficiency would be important in DNA. In fact, it seems that a high base system would be more efficient. If you had 80 nucleobases instead of 4, each base pair would contain far more information
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> If you had 80 nucleobases instead of 4, each base pair would contain far more information Which is a problem given DNA is a lossy format.
- Llamamoe 3y agoStrictly speaking, you could encode more error-correction bits into a higher nucleobase count but that'd pretty much require intelligent design, and wouldn't necessarily be viable for microorganisms to have that many proteins handling all the metabolic scaffolding.
- asimpletune 3y agoThe efficiency comes from the ratio of the alphabet to the number of character places needed to express them. Otherwise why not base a million? Or a billion? This ratio is what leads to base e being the theoretical maximum.