Take a look at: H.P. Young, Measuring the compactness of legislative districts, Legislative Studies Quarterly 13 (1988) 105-116,
and the interesting article by Brian Hayes that appeared in the New Scientist. http://www.americanscientist.org/Issues/Comsci96/compsci96-11.pdf Best wishes, Joe -- Joseph Malkevitch Department of Mathematics York College (CUNY) Jamaica, New York 11451 Phone: 718-262-2551 Web page: http://www.york.cuny.edu/~malk
