I love how they tell a story and line up in the most unusual ways. The Fibonacci sequence is one of my favorite math topics. But here is another cool concept: if we could travel back in time, tracing the branches of our family trees, the number of our ancestors doubles with each generation. In order for us to exist, we had to have two parents, four grandparents, eight 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. And that's just 12 generations (approximately 400 years).
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Default to cake
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After 50 years in education, Snow retiring from school board
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