RE: DIS: RE: BUS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of proposal 5707

[Alexander Smith]

root wrote:
> The actual wording of the contract does not agree with you.  "A vote
> of SELL(X - Y) on an Agoran decision is equivalent to posting a Sell
> Ticket with a cost of X and voting to endorse the filler of that
> ticket...."  5 votes of SELL(X - Y), then, is plainly equivalent to
> posting 5 Sell Tickets.
No, it isn't. In most programming languages,
 
f(x) * 5
 
calculates f(x) and then multiplies the result each time. Therefore, the
only sensible interpretation of the programming-like abbreviation
SELL (5VP) x 5 is to file a sell ticket for 5VP, and vote 5 times to endorse
the filler of that ticket. You're trying to multiply the function itself, rather
than its result.
 
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ais523