On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:16:40 +0100, Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 10:00:47AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 02:43:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> > It should be relatively straight forward for Devotee to >> > find the >> > winner, take the winner out of contention the next round, find the >> > next winner (ignoring any pairwise contests dealing with any >> > candidate no longer in the contest), and continue until the number >> > of candidates desired has been reached. >> This is no doubt true. As I mentioned in another mail, this >> procedure does have the problem of not delivering proprtional >> results. A scenario. > A simpler scenario. OK, color me convinced. I am now trying to wrap my head around the stuff found at http://m-schulze.webhop.net/, and see if I can implement some of the methods mentioned there. I haven't had to plough through so much math since grad school. manoj -- "I'd love to go out with you, but I did my own thing and now I've got to undo it." Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]