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Not at all. The little numbers after the element's chemical symbol show you how many atoms of that element the compound has. For example, CH4 is methane, C2H6 is ethane, which would have 8 atoms instead of methane's 5, C3H8 is propane with 11 atoms, as long as hydrocarbons are concerned. But there are compounds such as proteins with hundreds of atoms and there their arrangement in space makes a lot of difference for their chemical and physiological properties.

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