Re: ANCESTRY QUESTION?

Jeffrey Friedman (jff@ix.netcom.com)
18 Jan 1995 13:41:12 GMT

In <3fis4v$q74@gap.cco.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
writes:
>
>In article <3fffd2$lbi@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>, jff@ix.netcom.com (Jeffrey
Friedman) writes:
>=In <3ffan8$130u@fidoii.cc.lehigh.edu> pv02@lehigh.edu (Peter Vorobieff)
>=writes:
>=>In article <3ff8ql$8u6@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, taf2@po.CWRU.Edu spake thusly:
>=>>
>=>>In a previous article, decker@spt.tec.sc.us () says:
>=>>>Generation Population
>=>>>1 2 (Mother and father)
>=>>>2 4 (grandparents)
>=>>>3 8 (greatgrandparents)....
>=>>>20 1,048,576
>=>>>30 1,073,741,841
>=>
>=>The chances of 2^n being an odd number are rather small, methinks.
>=
>=Welcome to the new world of pentium math.
>
>Wait a minute! This was a fixed-point calculation. Not even the Pentium has
>trouble with those.

No, his ancestors came over in a boat, so he's doing a floating point
calculation.

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Jeffrey F. Friedman

jff@ix.netcom.com

jeff@friedman.com