u/Grin-Guy

Hi,

On a French subreddit that’s used by people to warn about fraud or ask if something is a fraud, we often have people on the verge of falling for MLM/Ponzi scheme.

If I remember correctly, I once heard that a Ponzi Scheme in which each person had to recruit 7 other person, would include the whole world’s population in only 8 levels (the numbers might be absolutely wrong though).

Therefore, the last row would never be able to recruit more people. (According that all the person in the previous rows, could).

Yet, I have no idea if the numbers I remember are true, and how to calculate it.

What if you only have to recruit, say, 4 person each ?

Is there any way of calculating it ?

I have instinctively tried with number of people you have to recruit to the power of rows needed = 8.3 billions, and reverse it but failed miserably in the process.

All help is appreciated.