[Election-Methods] What's in a name? (was Re: Steve--Accepting or rejecting in Approval)

[Steve Eppley]

Hi,

Markus Schulze wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> Mike Ossipoff wrote (26 July 2007):
>
>  > By the way, SSD was devised by Steve Eppley and me.
>  > Markus Schulze had previously posted about CSSD, and
>  > its equivalence with BeatpathWinner, but Steve and I
>  > were unaware of that.
>
> The term "Schwartz Sequential Dropping" (SSD) was used
> for the very first time on 18 February 2000 in a mail by
> Mike Ossipoff. Already in that mail, Mike Ossipoff wrote
> that "SSD is equivalent to Schulze's method". Therefore,
> the fact, that the term "Schwartz Sequential Dropping" (SSD)
> is only a new name for the Schulze method, isn't something
> new, it was known from the very beginning.
>
> Markus Schulze
>
>   
By that strange reasoning, one could conclude that the Beatpath method is
not the same as Schulze's method, since the term Beatpath wasn't used
until later.  :-)

--Steve