To actually apply this it helps to go to something called the normal approximation to the binomial, because it's kind of difficult to compute this formula.

在实际应用这些公式的时候,需要运用二项分布的正态近似定理,因为二项分布公式的值很难计算

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But it turns out that if you make the voters distributed more realistically, let's say like on a bell-curve shape, it makes actually no difference to the result at all.

但事实上,就算我们让选民分布更符合实际情况,比如说是按钟形分布的,但这实际上对结果没有什么影响

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