In nature’s math, freedoms are fundamental | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

In nature’s math, freedoms are fundamental | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Numbers have a funny way about them. Young math students are taught various strategies to make problem-solving easier. Comparing fractions? Find a common denominator or convert to decimals. The strategies get more complex when doing the kind of math used to describe the activities of DNA, RNA, or protein sequences. In science, when you make a model, its parameters determine its predictions. But what do you do when different sets of parameters re…