friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) (07/19/85)
Well, I made a rather significant blunder in my article on
the shortness of the replicated polypeptide fragments as discussed
in Scientific American! I am surprised no-one has caught it yet!
Mr. Dubuc are you awake? My estimate of the number of permutations
was off by a few orders of magnitude, I multiplied when I should
have exponentiated!
However my main point remains unchanged, the number of
alternatives at that length is *many* orders of magnitude less
than at more traditional lengths, seriously weakening the probability
arguments!
--
Sarima (Stanley Friesen)
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