On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 05:08:05PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > On Friday 09 March 2007 16:18, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Given that this election has a record number of options, > > making us move to using Hex instead of decimal numbers for ranking, > ^^^ > > coupled with the fact that I'll be out of town all of next week, you > > are getting to see the draft ballot earlier this year than is the > > norm.
> Hmmm, decimal would have been quite a bit more straightforward and required > a lot less of an explanation. It would have meant handling multi-char vote values, necessitating changes to all the reporting including the tally sheet and the vote acknowledgements, each of which represent the individual ballot options as a single character column. > Along those lines, what are we going to do when/if we have more than 15 > choices on a ballot? It's not an unthinkable situation. Would we not call > it hex, but continue the alphabet to use G-Z? Or would we enter choice > number 17 as 11? base64! -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
