<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 4:27 PM Susan Simmons <<a href="mailto:suzerainsimmons@outlook.com">suzerainsimmons@outlook.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Did anybody recognize Teams as a reformulation of River?</div>
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<div>It shows that it is not necessary to explicify the implicit tree structure induced by the successive engulfing of one team by another.</div>
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<div>Does this simplified formulation increase River's chances of public adoption?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">It took me some effort to understand the Teams method, but maybe I'm not a good test. I'm only a little smarter than your average koala ;-) But let me offer a different way to write the Teams / River method that might be a little easier to follow. Among other things, I removed the sports analogy, moved some of the core concepts higher up, and inserted some redundancy. Let me know what you think:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">-----</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Overview... the count is based on the pairwise support matrix.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div>The winner is elected via a series of rounds in which candidates are merged into groups, where each group has a unique head. The first round begins with every candidate being the sole member of a one-member group. Each round consists of two steps:<br><br>1. Identify two groups to merge. Find the group “A” for which the head of the group has the greatest pairwise loss against any member of another group.<br><br>2. Group “A” is merged into the group of the pairwise winner from step (1) and the previous head of group “A” is no longer the head of any group.<br><br>The rounds end when all candidates have been merged into one group. The head of this one group is elected.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">-----</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Cheers,</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Daniel</div></div></div>