> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm > <[email protected]> wrote: >> This leaves the first step. At first glance, that seems to be prohibitive. >> If we have n candidates, there are n! possible ways to rank them,
There are only n! possible ways to rank them if you prohibit partial rankings. There are many more than n! when partial rankings are permitted, as in US elections. I include the formula for calculating the number of rankings in my "Realities Mar Instant ..." linked below. However, perhaps you are simplifying for the purposes of your simplification, so it doesn't matter? Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 "One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts." Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections http://kathydopp.com/wordpress/?p=174 Realities Mar Instant Runoff Voting http://electionmathematics.org/ucvAnalysis/US/RCV-IRV/InstantRunoffVotingFlaws.pdf View some of my research on my SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=1451051 ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
