<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div>On 19 Dec 2014, at 18:14, steve bosworth <<a href="mailto:stevebosworth@hotmail.com">stevebosworth@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">
J:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 10'000 is of course arbitrary since it is
not designed for any particular society. Each society should pick a number that
suits its needs.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;">
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</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">S:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please formulate the method by which any
society could “pick” this number without being arbitrary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>APR offers one answer to this question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you think of a better answer?</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>One more question. Does APR limit somehow the number of associations that can take part in the primary? If not, then you might get e.g. 10'000 associations, and that might be too much, and you would need a similar mechanism to limit the number of associations taking part in the primary.</div><div><br></div><div>Juho</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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