## Problem 283 — rank:189

**Title:** Prebiotic polymerisation in water

**Added binding assumptions (LaTeX):**

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Specify the treatment of polymers exceeding $L_{\max}$ and bound truncation error; reflecting or deleting overflow can artificially maintain functional inventory. The functional set is independently assayed and the positive threshold refers to a fixed volume convention. Require bounded physically feasible inventories and a declared continuing-energy/feed budget. A long-time averaged inventory is distinct from autonomous hereditary propagation of those polymers.
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