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A huge amount of people have him as their 30th-something great grandfather.

Somewhere in the ballpark of (average # children that grow to adult age per family) ^ 31



This starts to fall apart because of overlap -- for most of those people, he's thousands of their 30th-something great grandfather, not just one ancestor.


> This starts to fall apart because of overlap

AKA pedigree collapse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse


2^31 is already 2 billions ... And the average # children has to be higher




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