On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Narins, Josh wrote: > The only issue is the overall standard deviation between district > sizes can sometimes be helped by _REDUCING_ the number of seats. FOr > instance, at the last Apportionment (2000). Although 435 seats were given > out, if only 432 had been, the standard deviation of district sizes would > have been smaller.
Has anybody proposed that the number of seats float below the maximum in order to take advantage of this possibility? Then one could use a multidimensional analog to continued fraction approximants for finding the most proportional representation. Forest ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
