RE: Today I Am Going To Teach You How To Count… No, You Don’t Know!

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Today I Am Going To Teach You How To Count… No, You Don’t Know!

in mathematics •  7 years ago 

Here is a problem that will blow your mind if you haven't already done the calculation. Whats the probability of assembling my DNA at random? There are 3,000,000,000 base pairs in the human genome and 4 choices (codons) for each of the 3,000,000,000 base pairs. So the number of ways to assemble my DNA at random with replacement is 4^3,000,000,000. So the probability is 1/(4^3,000,000,000).

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That is probably why no two people look exactly alike unless they are identical twins. The odds are literally astronomical.

It would take more than a quadrillion times the age of the universe just to assemble my DNA at random if you made one selection per day. Doing it twice? Thats not going to happen.

You are who you are. Lol.

That is a true statement.