Adding "one more morph": A bright future for the BP industry

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Hypothetically speaking anything is possible. The problem with that is that the odds of certain things happening are so low that they are practically impossible. It would be nice to get a snake that has 15 different base morph genes in it, but I really dont think it is realistically possible to achieve that.

Now, if you are talking about the OP, reasonableness is not a factor. If you look at the subject, then reasonableness is key.

I was refering to the OP. I do understand that it is theoretically impossible.

Brainman is absolutely right. Let's break it down as follows.

Let n be the number of genes in your collection.
Let k be the number of genes you can get into one animal (ie, k=3,4,5 for most people).

Then the number of combinations of n genes with UP TO k genes in each animal is given in the following table:

The punchline is that even with 8 genes in your collection, for example, the number of animals with 3 or 4 genes is still quite large (and once again, these are all underestimates since super forms are not in here).

Note there is nothing above the diagonal since you can not produce combos with more genes than you have in your collection.

n / k --->

n........1........2........3........4.........5.........6..........7..........8.. .......9.......10
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1........1
2........2........3
3........3........6........7
4........4........10......14.......15
5........5........15......25.......30.......31
6........6........21......41.......56.......62.......63
7........7........28......63.......98.......119.....126......137
8........8........36......92.......162......218.....246......254......255
9........9........45......129......255.....381.....465......501.......510.....511
10......10.......55......175......385.....637.....847......967......1012....1022.. ..1023


For example, with 7 genes in your collection and only producing up to 4 gene animals, you have 98 possibilities.

With 10 genes in your collection and only producing up to 4 gene animals, you have 385 possibilities.

-JonV

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