be, rather than convexity, compactness.
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> One solution would be to require all districts to be
Take a look at:
H.P. Young, Measuring the compactness of legislative districts,
Legislative Studies Quarterly 13 (1988) 105-116,
and the interesting article by Brian Hayes that appeared in the New Scientist.
http://www.americanscientist.org/Issues/Comsci96/compsci96-11.pdf
Best wishes,
Joe
exity, compactness.
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> One solution would be to require all districts to be as convex as possib
One solution would be to require all districts to be as convex as possible
while respecting state boundaries.
This brings up the question of how do we measure deviation from convexity?
It could be the difference in the area of the convex hull of the region
and the area of the region, or it could
