Ancestral Mathematics

In order to be born, you need:

2 parents

4 Grandparents

8 Great-Grandparents

16 Second Great-Grandparents

32 Third Great-Grandparents

64 Fourth Great Grandparents

128 Fifth Great-Grandparents

256 Sixth Great-Grandparents

512 Seventh Great-Grandparents

1,024 Eighth Great Grandparents

2,048 Ninth Great-Grandparents

For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4,094 ancestors over the last 400 years.

Think for a moment - How many struggles? How many battles? How many difficulties? How much happiness? How many love stories? How many expressions of hope for the future? - did your ancestors have to undergo for you to exist today at this very moment.......

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