# Strange numeric coincidences that should occur only rarely **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2020, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-numeric-coincidences-that-should-occur-only-rarely/924478 "2020-11-01T11:22:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 131
**Author:** ![sbright33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@sbright33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sbright33)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-numeric-coincidences-that-should-occur-only-rarely/924478/131 "2020-11-07T15:39:22Z")
You guys are good at math please give me some ideas. > [@Election results today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-results-today/924977): > > Can someone please help me with specific numbers or ideas why the election may not be called today? Has a presidential election ever been called on a weekend? During a popular football game? Do any of these issues matter at all? Clearly it can’t be JUST math. PA in particular. The 0.5 comes into play to avoid a recount. Seems that the remaining votes must be less than what is needed to go back below 0.5 with some finite margin of certainty? Opinion, math, facts, history please. I promise not to look for strange patterns in the answer… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-numeric-coincidences-that-should-occur-only-rarely/924478)._