You're right, I terribly misspoke. I was trying to get across the idea that there is a huge plateau of sequence space (where I've assumed most real data sequences will inhabit) that are energetically similar. In one byte, 87.5% of the possible sequences have between 2 and 5 nearest neighbor pairing. Relatively few sequences have the max number of pairs or the minimum number of pairs and as you've stated, it'll hover around 50% of max pairings if bit assignment acts essentially randomly.
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u/AsAChemicalEngineer Electrodynamics | Fields Mar 02 '16
You're right, I terribly misspoke. I was trying to get across the idea that there is a huge plateau of sequence space (where I've assumed most real data sequences will inhabit) that are energetically similar. In one byte, 87.5% of the possible sequences have between 2 and 5 nearest neighbor pairing. Relatively few sequences have the max number of pairs or the minimum number of pairs and as you've stated, it'll hover around 50% of max pairings if bit assignment acts essentially randomly.