Truncated preferences OK for Condorcet (was Re: [EM] Ignorance)

[Ma Anguo]

Thanks Steve,

That's great stuff and it does indeed answer my questions.

I will soon upload two large documents documenting (for 
beginners) a Condorcet ballot and a Condorcet matrix.
After that, I'll concentrate on the rather 
sketchy/innacurate series of articles I posted 
http://www.masquilier.org/republic/election/ 
including my 'proposal' that was based on a false assumption 
(some replied privately pointing out some other potential 
problems with it too).
So, now that the Agora is working to my satisfaction, I will 
rewrite the whole 'election' section.
Of course, I will take into account everything that everyone 
has written to me. Thanks.

On Thursday 04 Mar 2004 1:00 am, Steve Eppley wrote:
> (The
> website also provides proofs of satisfaction.  The proofs
> use mathematical symbols from the Microsoft symbol font,
> so I'm curious to know whether a GNU/Linux user like
> Augustin can easily display them.  Someday I'll translate
> them into pdf format, which should take care of any font
> problems.)

I had a look.
even though the font/encoding used is properly declared in 
your page header, the mathematical symbols are replaced by 
little squares, which typically happens when a character is 
missing from (my) font set. 
The charset cp-1252 is fully supported (i believe) in 
GNU/linux, but it may be that I haven't installed the 
proper fontset, simply because I never noticed it was 
missing before.

Anyway, when I get to rewrite the Condorcet section, I'll 
put a link to your page.

If I understand your MAM procedures well, casting a ballot 
would no be any different from what I have now available in 
the Agora. The difference would be in the way the winner is 
computed.
In the Agora the (often tied) winners are computed according 
to the SSD-beatpath algorithm. It is one of my aims in the 
longer term to show who would be winner according to 
different algorithms (see changelog/Road Map).
If you wish, I could add MAM, but only if my coding ability 
is sufficient! 
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~seppley/MAM procedure 
definition.htm
I haven't looked in much details yet, but I am not sure I 
could come up with the appropriate algorithm (and one not 
too resource consuming) for MAM.
In any case, that would be for a bit later: I have to 
rewrite the articles mentionned above first.


Thanks for your detailed reply.
Thanks for your time,


Augustin.






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