Saturday, January 09, 2010

Fabulous Adventures In Coding : First Cousins Once Removed

Fabulous Adventures In Coding : First Cousins Once Removed: "Take two different people who have a common ancestor but who are not related by direct succession (that is, neither is the mother, father, grandmother, and so on, of the other):

Degree of cousin-hood is the minimum of the numbers of generations back that you have to go to find the nearest common ancestor, minus one.

Removed-ness is the absolute difference between the numbers of generations back you have to go to find the nearest common ancestor."

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