Relationships...
What are the chances that my wife's fathers's uncle's daughter-in-law's father's sister's daughter is the wife of my dad's sister's son-in-law's brother? I would say one in a billion and I am very fortunate to be that one in a billion...
posted by Siva Balan @ Tuesday, March 28, 2006
5 Comments:
At Tuesday, March 28, 2006,
Siva Balan said…
Igloo - Thanks.
At Tuesday, March 28, 2006,
Anonymous said…
Calculus was easier for me. Kozhapittada.
-Little bro
At Wednesday, March 29, 2006,
Rakesh said…
clear a confuse aagitane
At Friday, March 31, 2006,
Anonymous said…
Indeed a small world !!!
At Friday, March 31, 2006,
Gopal said…
it is even more amazing you could trace this far...(most people give up at about 'uncle's daughter-in-law':-)) - but this really shouldn't be too surprising from a probability point of view (we typically underestimate real-life probabilities - are you surprised (like me) to learn that in a room with only 23 people, there is a 50% chance two people will share same birthday?).
Something else to ponder - biologists tell us that each person alive is linked - through an unbroken chain of parenthood - to a mother, the 'mitochondrial eve'! (this woman must have had two or more daughters - otherwise that lone daughter would take on the mantle of being the M-Eve). Think about all possible ways the local populations must be linked in this tree of life - given that 100 years ago most people lived and dies within 5 miles of where they were born?
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