On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:25:24AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > In any event, as I stated before, I had dropped the use of "preferred" > in favor of "beat path" because "beat path" is used in the technical > literature on voting systems and seems to have a precise definition > which agrees with the definition I'm using.
Yup, I just found it incredibly confusing trying to remember if a beat path from A to B meant A beats C, beats D, beats B, or the other way around. > > It might be better to recast the calculation of the "Schwartz set" > > in terms of "defeats" rather than "beats". > The definition of schwartz set I used requires transitive closure, and is > thus tied to the term "beat path". Other than that, I suspect you > could be right. Well, "defeat path" then :) So what's the draft look like now? How many years did it take for us to manage to agree on this? :) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
