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Daily Trivia for November 21, 2024
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Daily Trivia for November 21, 2024
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Lack of celebrity/actor knowledge got me on 1 and 6.
After the first fold you've stacked 1 sheet on top of another to get 2 sheet. On the second fold you're stacking 2 sheets on top of 2 bricks to get 4 sheets. Then the next fold would be 8 sheets and so on. Doubling like this by the time you've done 42 folds you've got a tower of over 4 trillion sheets.
Paper might be thin but even just stacking 100 sheets gives you block, imagine what 4 trillion sheets would look like.
How many people in that generation and how many people overall related to the initial person?
First generation: 1, the self
Second generation: 2, 3 total now including the parents
Third generation: 4, 7 total
Sixth generation: 32, 63 total
Ninth generation: 256, 511 total
Each generation is doubled, so it's exponential..
Check my maths, but this means that from the 1st to 32nd generation, you have 2^33 people, 8.58 billion, which is more than the population of the earth right now (the actual population at the time of your 33rd generation back was significantly smaller).
The 33rd generation has that many people in just that one generation.
Many of the branches of your ancestry, if you kept going backwards, would link to each other (children of the same couple). The British Royal Family has a famous example of this only a few generations back.
Hold on, what a rhyme, how sublime!