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# ^ this
Edit: and if you use 4 bases, you can store a byte.
(Pie of Meat ___°¬¯O¯____\o/_____/\_,____Y¯¯Y, Sun 3 Jun 2007, 14:08, archived)
# wouldnt 64 bits be 8 bytes
not just one, or have i mis-understood you

also it might be better (easier to read/code or something) to stick to two bases, or if not then prehaps to engineer some more bases, and get a higher data density
(I helped save b3ta! wjh31, Sun 3 Jun 2007, 14:14, archived)
# There are more than 4 bases....
Just some aren't so common, thing slike Xanthine
(I helped save b3ta! Jsysco is mostly a lurker, mostly, Sun 3 Jun 2007, 14:16, archived)
# *learns*
im afraid im a physicist rather than having gone down the bio route, so i dont know much of this
(I helped save b3ta! wjh31, Sun 3 Jun 2007, 14:17, archived)
# There's also RNA
But that generally has the half life of a herd of hedgehogs on an autobahn.
(I helped save b3ta! Jsysco is mostly a lurker, mostly, Sun 3 Jun 2007, 14:19, archived)
# and the public is less aware of it, so it would probably get less funding
(I helped save b3ta! wjh31, Sun 3 Jun 2007, 14:22, archived)
# True, true.
What's the one beginning with U? (Wiki)... ah yes, uracil, used in RNA instead of thymine. It's been a while since biology :)
(Pie of Meat ___°¬¯O¯____\o/_____/\_,____Y¯¯Y, Sun 3 Jun 2007, 14:22, archived)
# I meant 4 instances of some base.
So 4 ^ 4 = 256.
(Pie of Meat ___°¬¯O¯____\o/_____/\_,____Y¯¯Y, Sun 3 Jun 2007, 14:20, archived)
# oh yes
i made a mistake, 64 wasnt the number of bits, just the number of unique combinations, i must have been somewhere else
(I helped save b3ta! wjh31, Sun 3 Jun 2007, 14:24, archived)