Dear Eric, you wrote (1 Feb 2004): > There is only one thing to say here. Hypocrite. > > Well, I will say a bit more... > > Quite frankly, neither if you can lay claim to the moral high ground > here and I for one am getting quite tired of this inane flame war. > You both are doing nothing but repeating the same arguments over and > over and over again. > > STOP IT.
When I wrote on 15 Dec 2003 that Mike Ossipoff and Russ Paielli mistakenly called a different algorithm "Floyd algorithm" and that with the correct Floyd algorithm the strengths of the strongest paths can be calculated in a runtime of O(N^3), where N is the number of candidates, then this wasn't an attack. This statement was necessary for the discussion of efficient algorithms to calculate the strengths of the strongest paths. Actually, I had told Mike Ossipoff several times during the last years that he mistakenly called a different algorithm "Floyd algorithm" and that with the correct Floyd algorithm the strengths of the strongest paths can be calculated in a runtime of O(N^3). I do not believe that it would have been possible to discuss the Floyd algorithm without stressing that that algorithm that is mistakenly called "Floyd algorithm" at the website of Mike Ossipoff and Russ Paielli is not the Floyd algorithm. Markus Schulze ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
