Re: [EM] Are cycles a problem in practice?

2004-04-28 Thread Andrew Myers
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 07:59:05AM -0400, Eric Gorr wrote: > At 12:26 AM -0400 4/28/04, Andrew Myers wrote: > >You can check the results out for yourself at > >http://www5.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs. > > This link appears to be invalid. Sorry, I dropped a tilde. It's http://www5.cs.cornell.edu/~a

Re: [EM] Are cycles a problem in practice?

2004-04-28 Thread Eric Gorr
At 12:26 AM -0400 4/28/04, Andrew Myers wrote: You can check the results out for yourself at http://www5.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs. This link appears to be invalid. Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spellin

[EM] Are cycles a problem in practice?

2004-04-27 Thread Andrew Myers
A lot of energy is expended on how to resolve cycles. Is this really a problem in practice? One reason I ask is that having run a number of elections on my election server, I find that cycles seem not to be an important issue. In fact, not only is there no cycle involving the top candidate, often t