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Dhomochevsky · 2012-01-01, 07:01

Stalking is bad, hmkay.

But the math is interesting.

If "8th cousin" means 8th degree, where as first degree would be direct cousin and 2nd would be the child of a cousin and so on, then 8th degree is a crazy large circle of people.
It's basicly exponential growth with each step and considering you start with lets say 5 siblings you end up with something like 500k people (of which not all are still alive, but the base is biggest, so yeah...).
Even if you assume that some people died without having children, or had less children, married inside the group ect, it is still nothing I would still call a family.

2012-01-01, 07:01	Link #1937
Dhomochevsky temporary safeguard Join Date: May 2004 Location: Germany	Stalking is bad, hmkay. But the math is interesting. If "8th cousin" means 8th degree, where as first degree would be direct cousin and 2nd would be the child of a cousin and so on, then 8th degree is a crazy large circle of people. It's basicly exponential growth with each step and considering you start with lets say 5 siblings you end up with something like 500k people (of which not all are still alive, but the base is biggest, so yeah...). Even if you assume that some people died without having children, or had less children, married inside the group ect, it is still nothing I would still call a family. Last edited by Dhomochevsky; 2012-01-01 at 07:12.