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What's up with people saying the results of the Venezuelan elections are "statically impossible"? (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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I'm not good at math, but people keep passing this chart around in reddit-logo

But I keep seeing people in the comments debating whether this is actually "impossible" or not, using stats terms I'm not familiar with. Also idk the source of this graph so maybe it's bs.

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[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago

It's not impossible, it's called padding. You can get your spreadsheet software to display 5 decimal points and it will happily convert '51.2' to '51.20000.' If it were originally '51.234' it would display '51.23400'

Aka this is a nothingburger.