Episode 454
How many people could share my surname?
How many people could have my last name in 300 years?
Question of the Week, from the Naked Scientists
November 16, 20203m 48s
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Show Notes
Beata asked "If three hundred years ago there was one person with a certain surname, how many people could have their surname today?" Eva Higginbotham got mathematician James Grime to crunch the numbers... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Topics
surnamesnames being passed downjames grimevictorians