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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 7829219, member: 104064&quot;]It&#039;s just factors of 2. So three generations ago, great-grandparents, is 2^3=8. 38 generations back to William the Conqueror is 2^38, which equals just under 275 billion people. This is where the math thing falls apart - nobody has that many ancestors. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s also interesting for me to contemplate the &quot;wealth&quot; thing. Going back into the 1700s, some of my ancestors were very wealthy, for the times. They owned farms and mills and expanded into new economic activities as Europeans pushed west. They founded entire towns! And yet all of my grandparents basically grew up dirt poor. Funny how that generational wealth trickles one way and not another, and I&#039;m sure many ancestors along the way also lost their fortunes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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