Thanks Steve,
That's great stuff and it does indeed answer my questions. I will soon upload two large documents documenting (for beginners) a Condorcet ballot and a Condorcet matrix. After that, I'll concentrate on the rather sketchy/innacurate series of articles I posted http://www.masquilier.org/republic/election/ including my 'proposal' that was based on a false assumption (some replied privately pointing out some other potential problems with it too). So, now that the Agora is working to my satisfaction, I will rewrite the whole 'election' section. Of course, I will take into account everything that everyone has written to me. Thanks. On Thursday 04 Mar 2004 1:00 am, Steve Eppley wrote: > (The > website also provides proofs of satisfaction. The proofs > use mathematical symbols from the Microsoft symbol font, > so I'm curious to know whether a GNU/Linux user like > Augustin can easily display them. Someday I'll translate > them into pdf format, which should take care of any font > problems.) I had a look. even though the font/encoding used is properly declared in your page header, the mathematical symbols are replaced by little squares, which typically happens when a character is missing from (my) font set. The charset cp-1252 is fully supported (i believe) in GNU/linux, but it may be that I haven't installed the proper fontset, simply because I never noticed it was missing before. Anyway, when I get to rewrite the Condorcet section, I'll put a link to your page. If I understand your MAM procedures well, casting a ballot would no be any different from what I have now available in the Agora. The difference would be in the way the winner is computed. In the Agora the (often tied) winners are computed according to the SSD-beatpath algorithm. It is one of my aims in the longer term to show who would be winner according to different algorithms (see changelog/Road Map). If you wish, I could add MAM, but only if my coding ability is sufficient! http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~seppley/MAM procedure definition.htm I haven't looked in much details yet, but I am not sure I could come up with the appropriate algorithm (and one not too resource consuming) for MAM. In any case, that would be for a bit later: I have to rewrite the articles mentionned above first. Thanks for your detailed reply. Thanks for your time, Augustin. -- www.masquilier.org Condorcet, Approval alternative voting. In order to prevent people from receiving viruses that would seem to originate from my email, if you use Microsoft Windows you do not have permission to add this address to your address book. If I am in your address book, please remove me. Of course, this does not apply to GNU/Linux users. Thank you. ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info