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Old December 24th, 2003, 09:03 AM
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Default Re: OT: is this real?

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
That is wrong. The longest word is the full extension of DNA, which is either around 40,000 letters or 400,000 letters, I forget.
What do you mean by that ? If you refer to the human genome, then that is around 10^10 bases.
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