On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 2:20 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < [email protected]> wrote:
> > On 6/3/2020 2:12 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > Aris may have a little more difficulty with eir proposal because that F/A > > ratio doesn't have a clever term-of-art name defined in R955 - and I just > > realized it's broken anyway, because the "greatest F/A ratio" doesn't > > error trap division by 0 the way R955 does, even if it directly refers to > > R955. > > > > (In terms of "greatest", for A=0 you might need an explicit tiebreaker - > > level of F maybe? - that's not in the rules anywhere). > > > > Just a little more on this: the way we used to do it is to define "Voting > Index" (VI) using the F/A ratio such that: > > If A>0 then VI = F/A; else > if F=0 then VI=0; else > VI = 'Unanimous' > > and we had additional text that said a proposal was ADOPTED if VI > AI, > where 'unanimous' was considered greater than any AI. > > Still doesn't help with ties for A=0... > I'll go with (F - A)/total. -Aris > >
