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Re:You’re Descended from Royalty and So Is Everybody Else by nyrikki on Thursday January 04, 2018 @12:07PM (#16071950)
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.

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Re:You’re Descended from Royalty and So Is Everybody Else by falsprofet on Thursday January 04, 2018 @05:43PM (#16074804)
2^42 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.
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