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The Oscar ballots were mailed in late January and due back to PricewaterhouseCoopers this past Tuesday for final tabulation. Only two partners of the accounting firm know the results until the winners are announced onstage during the Academy Awards presentation. Can crunching a few numbers help predict the contents of the envelopes? Furman math professors John Harris and Kevin Hutson, along with Davidson College professor Tim Chartier, give it their best shot in a piece for the Huffington Post.