Is that possible or like mathematically what has to happen in terms of folks voting to
- Get it to 69%
- Keep it there
I feel like we have that paradox thing where you can never traverse any distance cuz you gotta travel 1/2 then 1/2 that then 1/2 that 😵💫
Fortunately there is rounding so it doesn’t have to be exactly .69, it just has to round off to .69.
In fact, it can never be exactly .69 because you cannot represent that in base two floating point numbers!
The algorithm is simple. Upvote if it’s under .69. Downvote if it’s over. As long as you keep changing votes and committing sock puppet accounts it should work.
Is your question “what is the probability for one of my post to have 69% upvotes”? This should be answered by a binomial distribution!
According to this website, for p=0.5; n=100; and x=69 the probability should be ~0.005%.
This means that if 100 people vote your post perfectly randomly, the chance of getting 69% upvotes is ~0.005%. This number will also become smaller if more people start voting since given an infinite amount of votes, the ratio of upvotes should converge towards the chance that a person gives your post an upvote (aka. 50%) so we’d get even further from our 69% target.
Basically, if people vote perfectly randomly it’s unlikely to get to exactly 69%. Such is the fate of us mortals :(
