A computer made from strands of DNA in a test tube can calculate the square root of numbers up to 900.

Researchers at the University of Rochester in New York have developed a breakthrough DNA computer that’s capable of performing square root calculations of numbers all the way up to 900. Here's ...

"It can calculate the square root of a 10-bit binary number (within the decimal integer 900) by designing DNA sequences and programming DNA strand displacement reactions," the paper reads.

This required 4-bit binary numbers – the new prototype implements a 10-bit square root logic circuit, operating up to the decimal integer 900. The computer uses 32 strands of DNA for storing and ...

A new DNA computer calculates square roots of perfect squares up to 900. Like quantum computers, DNA computers are a frontier of post-silicon computing.