Re: Integer sizes and DFAs

From	gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Integer sizes and DFAs
Date	2022-03-26 19:45 -0700
Organization	Compilers Central
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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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RE: Integer sizes and DFAs Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2022-03-27 00:54 +0200
  Re: Integer sizes and DFAs gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-03-26 19:32 -0700
    RE: Integer sizes and DFAs Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2022-03-27 15:02 +0300
  Re: Integer sizes and DFAs gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-03-26 19:45 -0700

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