Compute the minimum length nucleotide sequence

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Compute the minimum length nucleotide sequence you need before you can expect a match to either strand to be unique, under the "naïve assumption" that nucleotides are randomly distributed across a 3Gbp (3 billion base-pair) genome. Show your work.

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