From: gah4@u.washington.edu   
      
   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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