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Fun With Factorials

March 6, 2018 thednageek 12d Comments

Ever wonder how much computer processing goes into relative matching? Probably not, but there’s some fun math behind it, so…

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Posted in: Lagniappe Filed under: 23andMe, AncestryDNA, computation, database size, Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage, relative matching

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