Concerning those pictures by Ka-Ping Yee and Brian Olson.
The naive method of producing these pictures, assuming an NxN pixel picture
and V voters per election, takes time of order (N*N*V).
I just want to point out for algorithms fans,
that it is possible to accomplish essentially
the same
No effect.
I have probably set up something wrong with my gcc. Anyway, these are the logs:
First make:
bash-3.2$ make spacegraph
g++ -Wall -O2 -DUSE_OLD_RAND -c -o RandomElection.o RandomElection.cpp
RandomElection.cpp: In member function `virtual void
The approval with poll is similar to the condorcet:
3A - maybe a slight difference at the bottom on the red region
3B - slight difference at the bottom of the green region
3C - no diff
4A - no diff
4B - blue top edge is not a line
4C - increase to blue region ... wierd
However, even
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The examples dramatize Hill's bias, but would could be more dramatic than
this?:
If we dildn't have the 1-free-seat-for-each-state rule, Hill would give
everyone a seat anyway, but Hill's own rules. It would give a seat to any
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Warren Smith wrote:
Theorems about Yee/Bolson pictures
Well, I wrote about 20 emails to Ka-Ping Yee and he hasn't responded...
I do appreciate your enthusiasm about the topic, but I have to admit,
14 messages in four days is quite a barrage! Forgive me for being
too busy