APPARENTLY, there are all sorts of uncanny coincidences in the way that DNA codes for the amino acids – the building blocks of proteins. That’s the conclusion of a paper by Tidjani Négadi of the physics department of Oran University, Algeria, entitled “The genetic code multiplet structure, in one number”.
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Oddly, Négadi’s discoveries revolve around the numbers 23 and 23! – the latter is the factorial 1 × 2 × 3 … 22 × 23, or 25,852,016,738,884,976,640,000 – a number Négadi describes…
