On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > root: >> FOO x 3 is our standard shorthand for casting three votes of FOO, not >> for casting a single vote of FOO x 3. > > Yes, but that doesn't help tell our two situations apart, as it doesn't > explain whether "FOO" is expanded before or after the multiplication. As a > result, your vote probably fails altogether due to the ambiguity, as does > BobTHJ's.
To put it in algebraic terms, "FOO" expands to a vote. The multiplication multiplies the number of votes. I don't see what's ambiguous about that. -root
