Dave, --- Dave Ketchum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Try: > 5 a>b > 2 b>a > 6 a=b > By not counting the = we have 5:2 > With counting them we have 8:5 > > The > and < determined that a gets 3 more votes than b - to me, strength > of a's win over b.
It's called "Margins" when defeat strength is measured as the vote difference. With WV, the defeat strength is the number of votes for the winning side; in this case, it would be 5 votes. > I have the = making a have a total of 8 votes, useful (I think) in > deciding how to untangle cycles, should that be needed. A potential problem is that it becomes unclear how many people actually voted a>b. Kevin Venzke Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail : 250 Mo d'espace de stockage pour vos mails ! Créez votre Yahoo! Mail sur http://fr.mail.yahoo.com/ ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info