Very roughly how many water molecules would you guess there are in a single cell? Within a couple of orders of magnitude? I got it quite wrong.
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The lesson for me is that cubing numbers makes them grow faster than I realized at a gut level. “Polynomial algorithms are fast!” is not so true for O(n^3).
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Apparently there are on the order of 10^8 protein molecules per cell, which sounds like an awful lot until you take the cube root, to get a few hundred, which seems plausible if you think of all the organelles, made of protein, that have to fit in there.
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