When measuring blood pressure is it possible for the diastolic number to be higher than the systolic number?

It’s late at night and this came to my mind. Ik the normal blood pressure is around 120/80 (something like that anyway) but I was wondering if someone could ever have a reading like 100/110

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It can't happen..
the first number is the pressure of blood being squeezed into your arteries by the heart. the second number is the static pressure between beats.. it can never be higher than the pumping pressure unless you're a few seconds from death..