On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> Yes, that too. :-) But as I wrote, for the 50% situation, there is a
> reason we want that. We want to say "there are more people in favour
> than against". With the supermajority, we want to say "there are
> many more people in favour than against".
Right.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:11:12PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> With 6 people, 1/2 of the votes is 3 votes, with no error. "more than
> 1/2" needs 4 votes, or 4/6th. So even though the stated requirement is
> "more than 1/2", the actual requirement is "at least 4/6th". The
> difference is 1/6th of
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:50:28PM +, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:24:50PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > The Technical Committee (and those interested in the libc's resolver
> > behaviour) are having some trouble because of an off-by-one error in
> > the supermajority spe
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