Hi, Markus Schulze wrote: > Hallo, > > Mike Ossipoff wrote (26 July 2007): > > > By the way, SSD was devised by Steve Eppley and me. > > Markus Schulze had previously posted about CSSD, and > > its equivalence with BeatpathWinner, but Steve and I > > were unaware of that. > > The term "Schwartz Sequential Dropping" (SSD) was used > for the very first time on 18 February 2000 in a mail by > Mike Ossipoff. Already in that mail, Mike Ossipoff wrote > that "SSD is equivalent to Schulze's method". Therefore, > the fact, that the term "Schwartz Sequential Dropping" (SSD) > is only a new name for the Schulze method, isn't something > new, it was known from the very beginning. > > Markus Schulze > > By that strange reasoning, one could conclude that the Beatpath method is not the same as Schulze's method, since the term Beatpath wasn't used until later. :-)
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