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Pedantically, it would have to be finite, because there is a size limit. Cancer couldn't transform your genome into a piece of DNA the size of the sun.
by bjterry 13y ago
Pedantically, it would have to be finite, because there is a size limit. Cancer couldn't transform your genome into a piece of DNA the size of the sun.
- cam_l 13y agoJust to out-pedant you, the size of the sun is still quite finite, most (all?) things are. Perhaps colloquially, finite here is (not un-like literally) a metaphor, in this case for not-unfathomably-large, or more precisely, measurable.
- ekianjo 13y agoIt's not because it's finite that the number of combinations possible is limited. Just like for passwords, the more bits involved, the more possibilities you get, and a DNA or RNA is a molecular version of a very, very long password. So "finite" is a very poor way to describe the complexity.