Re: ANCESTRY QUESTION?

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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.
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