<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I should add that while I appreciate the point about how long the paper is, I haven't seen too many other people approach voting methods as sequential checks of different linear inequalities, and combine that with Saari's geometrical approach. However, I found that approach absolutely essential for proving what I was trying to prove. Doing something different requires setting up the formalism first, and I wanted to develop it gradually rather than tersely, so that inevitably adds some length. However, like I said, I will try to reduce the burden on the reader by inserting a summary table earlier in the paper.<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 8/26/10, Alex Small <i><alex_small2002@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Alex Small
<alex_small2002@yahoo.com><br>Subject: FBC paper, "style"<br>To: "Election Methods List" <election-methods-electorama.com@electorama.com><br>Date: Thursday, August 26, 2010, 3:17 PM<br><br><div id="yiv392637351"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">Warren,<br><br>You're right, I erred. "Style" should be used to refer to more subjective aspects of writing. Perhaps I should have described formal mathematical writing as following a particular "structure."<br><br>All I can say in defense of how I wrote the manuscript is that I am inexperienced at formal mathematical writing (physicists are to rigor what jello is to structural integrity) so I took my cues from how Saari wrote in "Basic Geometry of Voting."<br><br>The weaknesses of that approach are, as you point out, substantial. However, Saari wrote for a wider audience than just formally-trained mathematicians,
including social scientists (some of whom are indeed schooled in formal mathematical approaches, but not all) in his audience. There is some merit in that, and I need to think things through as I consider restructuring the
paper. I appreciate your feedback on this.<br><br>Anyway, revising to a more formal structure will take some time. In the near term, I'll try to include a table earlier in the paper to at least give the reader a more organized summary and preview of what is to come.<br><br>Thanks for the feedback.<br><br><br><br>Alex<br></td></tr></tbody></table><br>
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