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Am I related to Henry VIII's Master of the Mint? Are you?

MathsJam Conference 2023 (11/11/2023).

Peter tries to work out how exponential growth applies to generations of a family, and whether this means he's likely to be related to the Rowlett who was Master of the Mint in Tudor times even though there's no documentary evidence of a family connection - and whether most other people in the UK are too!