Blair Hull's winning formula - 2004-01-23
He did it with blackjack and the financial markets. Now Democrat M. Blair Hull is attempting to turn his bid for the U.S. Senate into a math problem.
The millionaire investor is using a mathematical formula to help win the race, combining voters' ages, ethnicity, wealth, voting history and other factors into a complex equation that one magazine writer said "looked like part of the human genetic code."
The densely written theorem is a string of precise numbers carried out to the eighth decimal place.
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