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[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago

I remember reading he was one third German and sometimes I cannot sleep at night because I am trying to figure out the math. This has been like 15 years ago and it still bugs me.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 39 minutes ago

If it makes you feel better, "one third" is realistically a reduced precision approximation of something like 23/64 (from a genealogical perspective) or near 33% of certain markers on a genetic panel.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

I mean I guess that's what they referred to, some approximation, but it still breaks my brain every time I think about it

Just like I once watched a video titled something like "this boy did the unthinkable" and then he did something very thinkable (he just ate someone's face) and I am still mad about that

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Sprinkle in a little incest and we are good to go.

I also have no idea, I thought it was all halves of halves.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

You can get some odd fractions by two parents having similar lineages. Like, if your mother is Irish, and your great-grandmother on your father's side is Irish, you would be five-eighths Irish. I'm having trouble finding a combination that gives you thirds, though.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Doesn’t exist, 3 is prime. No combination of 2^-n will get you a 3 in the denominator.

…unless somewhere along the tree there’s a person who shows up twice.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago

Gotcha. Three-eighths is roughly one-third, so I guess that? One-quarter German on one side, one-eighth on the other?

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