Re: Yockey#6

Stephen Jones (sjones@iinet.net.au)
Mon, 11 Mar 96 06:19:52 EST

Brian

On Mon, 26 Feb 1996 14:45:05 -0500 you wrote (quoting Yockey):

[...]

BH>...For example, it is often said
>that the total possible number of proteins of 100 amino acids is 20^100 =
>1.26 x 10^130 ...

I thought that 20^100 was simply 10^130, eg.

Log10 20 = 1.301029995664

= 10^1.301029995664 (by Windows Calculator)

therefore:

20^100 = (10^1.301029995664)^100

= 10^(1.301029995664*100)

= 10^130.1029995664

If so, where does Yockey get his "1.26 x 10^130" from?

God bless.

Steve

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