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Foil 1 Rolling Dice and Deciding who will win the Election Geoffrey Fox Java Academy March 20 99

From Java Academy:Polls and Throwing Dice NPAC Java Academy February--April 99 -- Mar 20 1999. by Geoffrey Fox
If you follow the process of an election or the White House or Republicans deciding on the correct strategy, one goes out and takes a poll.
Often the same issue is polled by lots of different groups; CNN, New York Times; political parties etc. You may have noticed that most polls use between 500 and 1500 people. Here we will try to show you why!
You may have also noticed that such polls quote a margin of error in their results

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