<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Since that grows all the districts in parallel, but approximately doubling districts at each step, at the end you'll have some districts with about double the population of other districts.<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 6, 2006, at 6:25 AM, <A href="mailto:raphfrk@netscape.net">raphfrk@netscape.net</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">2) If the number of districts is greater than the number of seats to be filled, combine the two<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><SPAN class="correction" id="">neighbouring</SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>districts that have the smallest total population into a single district and<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><SPAN class="correction" id="">goto</SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>2)</SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>