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Old 09-February-2008, 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen View Post
With 12002 votes, there are ways the election can go. Of these, there are
ways to pick 6001 votes, so the chances against it happening is

I leave the actual calculation to the student as a trivial exercise.
I see a question mark in the formula

Besides, there are only 212001 ways that the election can go, because I'm one of the voters and there's no way in h*ck that I'm going to vote for **** (name removed because of the ban on politcal discussion).
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