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Ancestrally Speaking Puzzle - Solution
The Puzzle:
Hungry Horace was looking through the family photograph album, which has a photo of each of his parents, each of his grandparents, all the way up to each of his great-great-great-grandparents.
How many photos is that?
Our Solution:
2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 great-great-grandparents
32 great-great-great-grandparents
2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 = 62 photos in all.
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 great-great-grandparents
32 great-great-great-grandparents
2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 = 62 photos in all.
Puzzle Author: Stephen Froggatt