Fairly funny article over at Slate about the math of voting.
If Kerry (or Bush) has just a slight edge, so that each of your fellow voters has a 51 percent likelihood of voting for him, then your chance of casting the tiebreaker is about one in 10 to the 1,046th power-- approximately the same chance you have of winning the Powerball jackpot 128 times in a row.
This sounds like the ravings of a Devilcrat from Texas. Besides being for WMD (Widowspeaks of Mass Destruction), he is also for live straddling, raising pre-flop with K2 offsuit, and even AUI's (Aiyaing under the influennce). Take voting advice from Jeremy...I think not!!!
Posted by: Jules on October 5, 2004 10:12 PM
The cover of the Economist a couple weeks ago was a great critique of our electoral system: "No way to run a democracy"
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Have you seen this before? It's a number guessing game: http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/guessthenumber.html. I guessed 68536, and it got it right! Pretty neat.
Posted by: Merideth Carleton on November 14, 2005 12:37 PM
This is cool, you have to try it. I guessed 26782, and this game guessed it! See it here - http://www.funbrain.com/guess/
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