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The timing is surprising given that the valuation differential between the companies has shrunk in recent months, but there is industrial and financial logic to the deal, he says.

A win would be the simplest way to avoid resorting to the point differential tiebreaker that could still be in play to decide the No. 1 seed in the West.

Oftentimes, point differential can serve as a useful proxy for a team’s overall strength.

One of my favorite metrics is the labor differential, which comes from the Conference Board’s measure of consumer confidence.

“There’s many examples, whether it’s in chemistry, whether it’s in materials, whether it’s in differential equations” that classical computers “just cannot do,” Gambetta said.