By the close of play on Sunday, the margin of success was eight.
In the data itself, the real margin of success was razor-thin: 23 Thais out of 16,395.
England would have contemplated a wider margin of success when Trinidad, Champions Cup winners 24 hours earlier, were 63 for four at the halfway stage.
The result is that we are no closer to knowing which search engine generates the most favoured results, though early indications suggest while Google may be slightly preferred, its margin of success is less than its market share.
Indeed the balance of evidence indicates that the system performs better than chance although it is recognised that the margin of success differs greatly between the seasons and is lowest in winter when gales are most frequent.
The statistics say that if the "votes" of nonvoters had been counted, George Bush would have increased his margin of success over Michael Dukakis in 1988; there would have been no change in the margin of Bill Clinton's win in 1992, and his margin would have increased to a landslide in 1996.
But Butcher, like many others, does not expect wild celebrations this time around at a far more comfortable margin of success.
Consequently, a joint United States/Korean International Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (I-NERI) has been launched to develop recommendations to improve the margin of success for in-vessel retention in high power reactors.
But if the margin of success was a welcome surprise to Burma's pro-democracy movement, it will also have been an unsettling shock to the military establishment and its proxy party, the USDP, which received a drubbing at the polls.
There is still ground to cover, a margin of success that will not only end a killer disease but will energize the world to fulfill the vital mission of public health in many other areas as well.
