<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412612539211_4030">From: Kathy Dopp <<a href="mailto:kathy.dopp@gmail.com">kathy.dopp@gmail.com</a>><br> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412612539211_4031">>Toby, in your first new example were maximizing, rather than<br>>minimizing my formula -- Thus misusing to find the LEAST<br>>proportionate, rather than the MOST proportionate set of winning<br>>candidates because the least number of people have disproportionate<br>>representation overall when my formula is minimized.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412612539211_4032">>In your second new example minimizing my formula would give exactly<br>>the set of winning candidates you prefer. Try it.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412612539211_4033"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412612539211_4037">>Kathy Dopp</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412612539211_4044"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412612539211_4045" dir="ltr">I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying I calculated the numbers incorrectly? If not, then in the first example 2/0 gave a score of 100.505 (lower - more proportional) and 1/1 gave a score of 101 (higher - less proportional), so 2 seats to the largest faction was the winning result.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412612539211_4053" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412612539211_4054" dir="ltr">In the second example, 2/0 gave a score of 101.502 (higher - less proportional) and 1/1 gave a score of 100.002 (lower - more proportional), so one seat each was the winning result, so the result swapped depending on whether the smallest faction had 1 or 3 voters (and no seats allocated in either case).</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412612539211_4140" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412612539211_4141" dir="ltr">Toby</div></div></body></html>