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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

And if everyone of your ancestors was unique (so no inbreeding) 80 mothers ago there would had to be 2^80^ = more than 1.2 septillion people on the planet

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

And if your grandmother had wheels she would be a bicycle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Village bicycle*

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This assumes a single child per set of parents, doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

No I’m talking about the amount of ancestors in the 80th generation back not the total amount of ancestors. It doesn’t matter how many children each set of parents had for that number.