Yeah... folks this is core CS stuff... Byzantine theory says that you must have 2/3 majority to make decisions:
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/malkhi98byzantine.html -matt On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Evan McNabb wrote: > > Why 2/3 majority, and not just a simple majority? To bias the poll against > > changing the name? > > This is what the club charter says, and if we are going to have a change like > a name change, I think that it is important that more than 50.001% agree. I consulted > with about 10 people and they all agreed this number was fair. > > I just want to make sure that a strong majority are infavor of the changes we make. > > -Evan > > -- > /********************************************************************\ > Evan McNabb: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://evan.mcnabbs.org > System Administrator, CS Department, BYU > GnuPG Fingerprint: 53B5 EDCA 5543 A27A E0E1 2B2F 6776 8F9C 6A35 6EA5 > \********************************************************************/ > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
