[lit-ideas] Re: The Sons of Martha - The Daily Princetonian
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:03:20 -0700
On Aug 14, 2008, at 9:15 AM, John Wager wrote:
Ahh, the mathematics of generations! What a trap!
You had two parents. They had two parents each. That makes 4 grand-
parents for you. Each of them had 2 parents, so you have 8 great-
grandparents.
If you keep going back, say, 100 generations, you get something
like 2535301200456458802993406410752 parents.
Where did all those people go?
Dust is my best guess.
David Ritchie
piercing through the heat in
Portland, Oregon
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