Re: [EM] Question about Schulze beatpath method

2012-04-05 Thread Markus Schulze
Hallo, I rewrote section 5 (Tie-Breaking) of my paper, so that it is now more in accordance with the other parts of my paper: http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze1.pdf Markus Schulze Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Question about Schulze beatpath method

2012-02-20 Thread Markus Schulze
Hallo, in example 3 of my paper, the weakest link of the strongest path from candidate A to candidate C is the same link as the weakest link in the strongest path from candidate C to candidate A: http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze1.pdf Markus Schulze Election-Methods mailing list - see

Re: [EM] Question about Schulze beatpath method

2012-02-20 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On 2/20/12 1:15 PM, Markus Schulze wrote: Hallo, in example 3 of my paper, the weakest link of the strongest path from candidate A to candidate C is the same link as the weakest link in the strongest path from candidate C to candidate A: http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze1.pdf the thing that

Re: [EM] Question about Schulze beatpath method

2012-02-17 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On 2/17/12 1:27 PM, Markus Schulze wrote: it can happen that the weakest link in the strongest path from candidate A to candidate B and the weakest link in the strongest path from candidate B to candidate A is the same link, say CD. how can that be? since a path is a *defeat* path. you only

Re: [EM] Question about Schulze beatpath method

2012-02-17 Thread Kevin Venzke
traversing the CD win (which is the weakest link in those paths).   Kevin   De : robert bristow-johnson r...@audioimagination.com À : election-methods@lists.electorama.com Envoyé le : Vendredi 17 février 2012 12h56 Objet : Re: [EM] Question about Schulze beatpath method On 2/17/12 1:27 PM

[EM] Question about Schulze beatpath method

2012-02-16 Thread Ross Hyman
If one removed all pairwise defeats that contradict the Schulze beathpath order and then constructed a new beatpath order from the reduced set of defeats, would the new beatpath order always be consistent with (although not necessarily the same as) the previous beatpath order? Could this