You've kept insisting that SSD is Schulze's method. And it's true that, as you've been defining Schulze method, SSD is a special case of Schulze's method, which is a classification of methods rather than a method.
But SSD isn't a special case of BeatpathWinner. SSD and BeatpathWinner are two dilfferent methods that can give two different outcomes wilth the same ballot-set, as in the example that I posted yesterday. In an example such as that, BeatpathWinner and SSD give different results. There isn't come version of BeatpathWinner that is SSD.
So Schulze's method isn't BeatpathWinner.
But no one can say that the definition of Schulze's method has lacked variety and changeableness. For instance, you've also defined Schulze's method in a way that uses beat-and-tie-paths instead of beatpaths.
Mike Ossipoff
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