On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 4:18 PM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> """
> The code below derives from a thread on elections...@python.org
> where we were talking about tie-breaking techniques.  There's a
> well known way that's actually used, but I was inspired to think
> about a game wherein the ballots are like playing cards in some
> ways, each encoded with a unique prime.
>
> I've got some notes in the moderator queue at math-teach (lots
> of traffic), for which I'll share the URL.  More in this month's
> elections-wg archive, public-facing.
>
>
Yes, here's that thread on math-teach I mentioned, one of my haunts:

http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2713500

Also, apologies for the comments sometimes make it sound like I was not
using
the full 52 cards.   I talk about 25-25 instead of 26-26.

Those comments were from a previous version, which also multiplies modulus
something.

Kirby
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