DNA Structure and Sudoku Puzzles - What Do They Have in Common?
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Both DNA structure and sudoku puzzle have indirect similarity:
Excerpts from Times Higher Education: From sudoku to DNA in six steps:
They are all bound together by the newish science of biocomputing in rather surprising ways
Reason:
the class of problems that DNA systems may be able to solve in the future could be much more interesting and wide ranging than the merely computational.
Besides that, there are something unusual written in this article - What’s Kevin Bacon number party game?
In explaining graph theory, for example, Amos entertainingly invokes the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon number party game - a film version of the Erd”+s number beloved of some mathematicians as a measure of prestige. The Kevin Bacon number for an actor is defined as the number of jumps via film collaboration that an actor must make in order to be connected to Bacon. Audrey Hepburn’s number, we are told, is two.
Recently, a 28-year-old Stanford bioengineering post-doc and a world’s sudoku champion named Thomas Snyder is hoping he can solve complex DNA puzzles to find a method to help diagnose, and perhaps prevent, gene-borne illnesses;in which sudoku has sharpened his mind for the task.
More info about the current sudoku world champion, read Newser: Sudoku Champ Eyes Tougher Puzzles
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