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@lonestudent I see no reason there should be a "nice number" answer, and of course there isn't just one answer.
 
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@chuy Can you tell me exactly which answer the Mathematica gave you? Thanks.
 
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posted on August 19, 2021 by John Cassel

While working with SARS-CoV-2 genetic data in the Wolfram Data Repository, we noticed that there was frequently only a relative handful of differences compared with the overall size of the sequences. This allowed us a number of interesting opportunities for further processing. First of all, with so much in common, the sequences could be aligned […]

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@lonestudent
{Root[82944 - 36000*#1 + 3845*#1^2 - 150*#1^3 + 2*#1^4 & , 1, 0],
Root[82944 - 36000*#1 + 3845*#1^2 - 150*#1^3 + 2*#1^4 & , 2, 0],
Root[82944 - 36000*#1 + 3845*#1^2 - 150*#1^3 + 2*#1^4 & , 2, 0],
Root[82944 - 36000*#1 + 3845*#1^2 - 150*#1^3 + 2*#1^4 & , 1, 0]}
@lonestudent Converting @chuy 's answer to approximate numerical values {3.35715, 14.4109}

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