With 12002 votes, there are
ways the election can go. Of these, there are
!6001!)
ways to pick 6001 votes, so the chances against it happening is
!6001!}})}\over{2^{12002}}})
I leave the actual calculation to the student as a trivial exercise.
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‘To those who regard “crime fiction” as some sacred icon which must follow a rigid formula, I will always be the man who writes 18-syllable haiku.’
Trying to make sense of computers,
The Error Log.