# 25th Amendment consequences

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25th-amendment-consequences/817582>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 9, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25th-amendment-consequences/817582 "2018-07-09T16:18:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25th-amendment-consequences/817582/41 "2018-07-12T00:46:25Z")

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> [@g8rguy](#):
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> Obviously this is all a hopeless aside, but with the clarification that **Bricker** should have said the floor function rather than rounding, he is, in fact, correct.
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> With the caveat that there are no fractional votes and no fractional voters (and that the number of voters is at least 1):  
> [ul][li]More than 1/2 of 2_n_ is at least _n_ + 1, which **Bricker** ’s function returns: Floor[(2_n_) / 2] + 1 = _n_ + 1.[/li][li] More than 1/2 of 2_n_ - 1 is at least _n_, which is again what **Bricker** ’s function returns: Floor[(2_n_- 1) / 2] + 1 = _n_ - 1 + 1 = _n_.[/li][/ul]

Exactly. Where n is even, n/2 is an integer, and a majority vote is n/2 + 1. Where n is odd, Floor(n/2 +1) is the majority.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25th-amendment-consequences/817582/42 "2018-07-12T01:41:54Z")

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These people are doing maths.

For fun. :eek:

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