Re: Integer sizes and DFAs

gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu>
Sat, 26 Mar 2022 19:45:48 -0700 (PDT)

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From: gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 19:45:48 -0700 (PDT)
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Posted-Date: 27 Mar 2022 12:17:34 EDT
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On Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 4:42:55 PM UTC-7, Christopher F Clark wrote:


(snip)


> Now, I just looked up the size of the human genome. it is 3 billion,
> so that's a little more than another order or magnitude bigger, so you
> definitely need slightly bigger integers


Note also that there are some larger genomes, such as the Japanese
flower, Paris japonica at about 150 terabase.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_japonica


We do like to think that we are the most special species, but it seems
that in genome size, we aren't the winner.
[Unless we have have some new way to apply DFAs to genomes, this seems to
be wandering away from our toptic. -John]

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