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by gus_massa 127 days ago
> that catalyzes general RNA-templated RNA synthesis using trinucleotide triphosphate (triplet) substrates

So it need very short RNA strings (length = 3), each one with a triphosphate that means that it is high energy molecule, similar to the ATP (length = 1).

I'm not sure if this is very optimistic bath composition, or it's a brilliant insight of why codons has length 3 too.