How many bits are there in an average human?
 

How many bits are there in an average human?

And, yeah... I spelled it correctly, "bits".

Keep on posting the answers, I will tell you the real answer soon when I think I should. :)

Its answerable if you define what a "bit" is in this context.

bites can be counted easily....

Ask a cannibal.

As mentioned above -- there can be no answer without a few more definitions.

It's obvious - the answer is 42!

DNA is binary, so I say it is the number of pairings in a human DNA strand.

Really? DNA has 4 values (AGCT) and code for protein in triplets. And you don't even want to ask about how the 3D structure of DNA is involved.

DNA may be lots of things, but binary it ain't.

Let's ask Mr. Owl.

Then there's the redundancy and the junk sequences...

I would hazard that there's an entire torrent of bits.

"an average human" : 16 bytes or 128 bits (if you include spaces and ignore question mark

I thought the four values (AGCT) could pair up in only one of two possible combinations. Hmm... Maybe I need to do some reading.

Yeah, but how can you tell ? It may look like random junk, but what if it's not...
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/250006.php

The answer is...... 10,000,000,000,000 bits! Converted to Terabytes would be... 1.13 TB. :D

An average human body contains 10,000,000,000,000 bits or converted in to terabytes would be 1.13 terabytes.
Thank you for taking your time.

No it doesn't, you are wrong.

I don't get it.

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13.37 !!! But it may be 14 now I guess.

(Stupid_to_stupid you see)

Regards.

Considering the human body replaces cells all the time and that others create more cells I really think the word average is a little to general, but wait we are in general so that may be ok then.

This is a question that is similar to in some ways this thread.

What I was getting at is that no definition of the type of information has been given. Nor has a definition of "contains" been given. It could be said that the state of every particle in every cell is information -- to reproduce a human exactly you would need this information after all. I think there are more than a few Terabytes of information involved in recording the exact position of sub-atomic particles...
Purely going on DNA do you count non-human cells such as bacteria, viruses and other parasites, symbiotes and the like?
The question was too general and no working was given for the answer so 42, 13.37 and 14 are equally as valid.
If it is going on DNA it could be argued that, since all nucleated cells contain effectively the same DNA sequence, the information content is that of one strand of DNA plus a few diffs.

And none of the DMA-based answers even consider how many bits of information are stored in a typical human brain.

And, how about the naughty bits? Don't they count too? ;)

an average human = 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100001 01110110 01100101 01110010 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01101000 01110101 01101101 01100001 01101110 = 128 bits and to make it mildly naughty : 256* nibbles, which could, by some standards, be considered foreplay.
I know it's a bit daft but it does answer the question.

edit : *oops I doubled the wrong one. 16 bytes : 32 nibbles. Hmmm, not so good. Premature paronomasia.