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tetchilyEngage t1_jczw7xj wrote

Reply to A single sperm contains 37.5MB of DNA by mutilatedxlips

This number (37.5 Mb) gets reported all of the time and it's very wrong. A single sperm has 3.5 billion base pairs of DNA in it. Since there are 4 possible bases, that means each position in DNA could store four bits of information. That gives 14 billion bits of information. Assuming 8 bits per byte, that 1.75 billion bytes of information or 1.63 Gb (at 1,073,741,824 bytes per gigabyte). That corresponds to roughly 43 times as much information as 37.5 Mb.

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Brain_Hawk t1_jcyzth9 wrote

Reply to comment by hawaiianSpotter91 in "What if women ruled the world?" by Atalkingpizzabox

You did the math wrong. It's not single countries, it's pairs of countries.

So for example, the USA not talking to Cuba. That's one pair

Now over the 193 countries in the United Nations, that makes 18528 pairs, meaning a pair of countries not talking to each other.

So assuming we maintain your estimate of around 25% of countries not talking to each other, we would have something more like 4,632 unique pairs of countries that are no longer speaking.

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