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Try counting the total number of your ancestors: you have 2 parents, they have 4 parents in total etc., i.e. 2^N where N is the number of generations. Going jus
by Geee 6y ago
Try counting the total number of your ancestors: you have 2 parents, they have 4 parents in total etc., i.e. 2^N where N is the number of generations. Going just 40 generations back (about 1000 years), you had 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 ancestors.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoBut not necessarily 2^40 unique ancestors. That is, the same person may be your ancestor by more than one route through the subsequent generations.