[EM] Ranked Pairs Description

Markus Schulze markus.schulze at alumni.tu-berlin.de
Fri Dec 26 02:08:01 PST 2003


Dear Eric,

you wrote:

> If two or more pairwise defeats have an equal strength and the
> margins are also equal, they are considered to be equivalent.
> Starting with the strongest defeat, consider each defeat in
> sequence with previously kept defeats, if any. If two or more
> defeats are equivalent, those defeats are considered together
> with previously kept defeats, if any. If any defeat under
> consideration is apart of a cycle, it is rejected. If any defeat
> under consideration is not apart of a cycle, it is kept.

I suggest that sentence 4 should be replaced by:

> If q equivalent defeats under consideration are parts of a cycle
> with previously kept defeats, the q! possible ways to consider
> one of these defeats after the other are considered separately.

Markus Schulze



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