DNA
Open Thread for April 25, 2016; Happy Title 25
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 04/25/2016 - 7:00am
So we're looking at 25 this Monday
25 is 5 squared, and it has no other divisors. It is odd, like the square of every prime other than 2.
25 is the smallest square that is the sum of two smaller squares (9 & 16). Carpenters and others make fact of this property to draw large right angles, since this is a pythagorean triangle, with sides of 3, 4 and 5
DNA as a storage medium for photos and other stuff
Submitted by stevej on Sun, 04/10/2016 - 12:16pmThis one has nothing to do with politics but it does hit my own personal trifecta in that it has a biology element, a photography element and a big nerd element.
Technology companies routinely build sprawling data centers to store all the baby pictures, financial transactions, funny cat videos and email messages its users hoard.