[EM] Re: redistricting - objectively

2005-01-09 Thread Dr . Ernie Prabhakar
On Jan 8, 2005, at 10:22 AM, Dr.Ernie Prabhakar wrote: However, I think Brian makes an excellent point: the most important question is what is the *goal* of redistricting. If we can come up with an objective criteria for measuring the 'goodness' of a map, then it really doesn't matter how it is d

[EM] Re: redistricting - objectively

2005-01-08 Thread Dr . Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Andrew, On Jan 8, 2005, at 5:58 AM, Andrew Myers wrote: Brian Olson replies: This sounds like one of the parts of a classic set of problems in Computer Science that are like cryptography in that a solution is hard to find, but easy to verify. Actually, it sounds to me like a minimum graph cut