On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:04 PM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "...shall create ceiling(50-(S/N)) VPs in the possession of each > > first-class party to the Vote Market, where S is the sum of all > > VP holdings and N is the number of first-class parties". > With this method, you could get S 1 short of 50N and never regain it. > How about, instead, a new party gains 50N-S VP; or, upon a player with > VP>50 leaving, eir VPs are redistributed randomly.
I think you're wrong. ceiling(50 - ((50N-1)/N)) = ceiling(1/N) = 1. -root
