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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: polypeptide pieces
Message-ID: <568@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 19:00:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 18 19:00:22 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Jul-85 07:45:43 EDT
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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	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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