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...Numbers item stating that there was an 83% chance that a coin flipped 5,825,043 times would land on one side at least 537 times (Bush's margin of victory in Florida) more than the other was incorrect [NOTEBOOK, Dec. 25-Jan. 1]. The chance of that happening...
...Chance that a coin flipped 5,825,043 times (the number of people who voted for Bush or Gore in Florida) would land on one side at least 537 times more than the other...
...haunted by legitimacy doubts for the next four years. The race was so close that it was within the margin of error of any vote-counting method, leading Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould to suggest that the election should be decided by a simple flip of a coin...
...that might be looking at the glass as half empty. On the other side of the coin, Harvard played Bucknell down to the wire, in a game much closer than the final score indicates...
...Mexico has worked this out. If the voters deadlock, the law hands the outcome over to a game of chance: the candidates can flip a coin, draw a card from a deck or play a hand of poker--assuming they can agree. Florida law allows for drawing straws. But this tie is elusive, imperfect as the election that produced it because when you are shuffling through 6 million votes and double-punched ballots and hanging chads and missing postmarks and the whole archaeology of human frailty, every count by machine or by hand yields a different result, each so close...