{"id":672,"date":"2011-06-04T20:46:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T00:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=672"},"modified":"2011-06-04T20:46:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T00:46:58","slug":"the-seesaw-magic-book-the-computational-power-of-dna-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"The seesaw magic book: the computational power of DNA molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2011\/06\/03\/dna-takes-square-roots\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CosmicVarianceBlog+%28Cosmic+Variance%29\">Cosmic Variance: DNA Takes Square Roots<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Caltech researchers Lulu Qian and Erik Winfree have managed to coax 130 strands of DNA into performing what is unquestionably a calculation: taking the square root of a number. (Ars Technica post; Science paper behind paywall; open-access background paper.) Not a big number: we\u2019re talking about four-digit binary numbers, so 15 at the biggest. And not very efficiently: with prodding, the calculation took eight hours. Moore\u2019s Law isn\u2019t really in danger here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xsq8AmpQaOk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: Cosmic Variance: DNA Takes Square Roots Caltech researchers Lulu Qian and Erik Winfree have managed to coax 130 strands of DNA into performing what is unquestionably a calculation: taking the square root of a number. (Ars Technica post; Science &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=672\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biologie","category-programmation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}