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Zorro

(15,737 posts)
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 11:56 PM Mar 2016

GOP Statisticians Develop New Branch Of Math To Formulate Scenarios In Which Trump Doesn’t Win Nom

In an effort to counter the real estate magnate’s rapidly growing lead in the delegate count, GOP statisticians announced Wednesday they had successfully developed an entirely new branch of mathematics for formulating scenarios in which Donald Trump does not win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.

“By expanding on pioneering work in the fields of applied statistics, higher-order logic, and number theory, we’ve arrived at a new branch of mathematics that provides for a multitude of feasible outcomes in which Donald Trump is not the 2016 GOP nominee,” said Dr. Jeffrey Larson, who has led a team of more than 30 statisticians who have been working around the clock at RNC headquarters to establish new mathematical properties since the wealthy businessman won the New Hampshire primary by a 20-point margin.

“The new field required several breakthroughs on the manipulation of Boole’s inequality principle, and some of our models are still only predictive within certain artificial stochastic conditions. However, this new discipline of Nonlinear Computational Probability finally establishes a practicable methodology by which there exist possible paths to the nomination for Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz.”

At press time, Larson announced the team had devised a new method of abstraction and mathematical induction in which lower numbers have a greater numerical value than their higher counterparts.

http://www.theonion.com/article/gop-statisticians-develop-new-branch-math-formulat-52463

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GOP Statisticians Develop New Branch Of Math To Formulate Scenarios In Which Trump Doesn’t Win Nom (Original Post) Zorro Mar 2016 OP
Priceless cantbeserious Mar 2016 #1
ROFL! ( n/t ) Make7 Mar 2016 #2
In the short term exboyfil Mar 2016 #3
I love the Onion Gothmog Mar 2016 #4
Bistromathics? sir pball Mar 2016 #5

exboyfil

(17,862 posts)
3. In the short term
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:51 AM
Mar 2016

would Cruz and Kasich agree to tell their voters to vote for Rubio in Florida, and Rubio and Cruz tell their voters to vote for Kasich in Ohio? Keep up the process for the best candidate in all the winner take all states.

That at least gets the nomination to the convention. Each can then plead their case after the 1st vote.

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