Tue May 30, 2006, 06:40am
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Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve
Switch to math concept for a moment. Either x > y, or x = y, or x < y. Technically, there are 3 possibilities; runner came first, out came first, or there was an exact tie. By the actual wording of the rules, the runner is not required to beat the out, the out is required to beat the runner. Therefore, tie must go to the runner.
By the next extension of science, what is the actual possibility of an exact tie in time and space, when time can be broken into an infinitesimally small component?
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Possibility? Same as the other two, one in three.
Probability? Not enough bandwidth to even think about it. 
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