On Oct 26, 8:00 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-10-26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> What in the world are you trying to count? > > > The calculation looks like this > > > A = 0.35 > > T = 0.30 > > C = 0.25 > > G = 0.10 > > The bases in DNA? > > > and then I basically continually multiply those numbers together. I > > need to do it like 200,000+ times but that's nuts. > > Exactly. It sure looks like what you're doing is nuts. > > > I can't even do it 1000 times or the number rounds off to 0.0. > > I tried taking the inverse of these numbers as I go but then > > it just shoots up to "inf". > > Can you explain what it is you're trying to calculate?
Looks pretty obviously to be a calculation of the probability that bases in the given ratios would randomly form a particular sequence. What use this would be I cannot tell. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
