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Funny enough the right information was available and accessible that made it trivial for me to follow my direct lineage back to Charlemagne Of course being 42
by nyrikki 9y ago
Funny enough the right information was available and accessible that made it trivial for me to follow my direct lineage back to Charlemagne
Of course being 42 generations removed, he is only 1 of 4,398,046,511,104 potential direct ancestor paths back at that level.
That number made me realize that we don't have branches in a family tree, we have laurels in a family wreath.
- falsprofet 9y ago2^42 is a number so large, it seems highly unlikely. The world population today is only 2^33. There might be - must be - multiple paths leading to the same person, for many persons. In any pedigree.