Programming question
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He started from an obviously flawed premise. The software should allow the user to do whatever he darn well pleases.
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Which is the best data structure to hold data like this?
*sigh* Yet another programmer who can't handle recursion...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Eventually something like that will happen to almost everyone's family tree once they trace their ancestors back into small farming villages. Population mobility wasn't high enough to prevent it.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
If you go back 30 generations, your distinct number of ancestors will outnumber the world population at the time. All of this stuff is extremely interesting from a maths perspective.
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*sigh* Yet another programmer who can't handle recursion...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
In some cases applying recursion could produce a stack overflow.