Population paradox

[Forest Simmons]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Narins, Josh wrote:

> 	The only issue is the overall standard deviation between district
> sizes can sometimes be helped by _REDUCING_ the number of seats. FOr
> instance, at the last Apportionment (2000). Although 435 seats were given
> out, if only 432 had been, the standard deviation of district sizes would
> have been smaller.

Has anybody proposed that the number of seats float below the maximum in
order to take advantage of this possibility?

Then one could use a multidimensional analog to continued fraction
approximants for finding the most proportional representation.

Forest



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