On Feb 1, 2010, at 11:36 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
at http://rangevoting.org/IrvNonAdd.html you say:
"In a C-candidate [IRV] race, each voting machine would have to
have C! pseudo-candidates and each precinct would have to pass C!
'subtotal' counts on to the central tabulator."
and you have a table that shows
3 4 5 6 ...
6 24 120 720 ...
is that correct?
is not a more correct answer
C-1
SUM{ n!/C! }
n=1
oh jeepers. i meant to say:
C-1
SUM{ C!/n! }
n=1
that'll teach me to do it from memory, without thinking about it.
which is bigger than C!. in fact, on http://rangevoting.org/
Burlington.html you show 9 (presumably precinct summable) piles for
3 (remaining) candidates.
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