[EM] Satisfaction Approval Voting - A Better Proportional Representation Electoral Method

[Raph Frank]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:39 PM,  <fsimmons at pcc.edu> wrote:
> Satisfaction Approval Voting - A Better Proportional Representation Electoral Method
>
> One way to generalize Proportional Approval voting to range ballots is by
> finding the most natural smooth extension of the function f that takes each
> natural number n to the sum
>
> f(n) = 1 + 1/2 + ... + 1/n.
>
> It turns out that we can extend f(n) to all positive real values of n via the
> integral
>
> Integral from zero to one of (1-t^n)/(1-t) with respect to t

Interesting.  The previous suggestion was to use logs and a correction.