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Interesting that it's the informational equivalent of 109 bytes, which is around the same order of magnitude as some of the earliest computer viruses that did nothing but replicate.


For reference the human genome is around 800MB.


1 nucleotide = 2 bits,

218 nucleotides = 436 bits = 54.5 bytes


Still bigger than a fork bomb !




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