spoon-business: CFJ: The Proposal Eating Gremlin Eats Decimals

["Jonathan Van Matre" <JVanMatre@xxxxxxxx>]

Statement:  The Proposal Eating Gremlin did not eat Proposal 270

Analysis:  Per Rule 261, the Proposal Eating Gremlin eats the kth proposal on the ballot, "Where the kth proposal is equal to the nth Gremlin number, where n is the number of proposals on the ballot."  Taking n = 27 (the number of proposals), the 27th Gremlin number is 53 / (120/27) since 53 was the Gremlin number in effect 1 second before the counting of the votes.  53 / (120 / 27) = 11.925.  However, Rule 261 does not specify that the number should be rounded, or only the integer portion used.  Therefore the Proposal Eating Gremlin ate only the non-existent 11.925th proposal, and Proposal 270 (the 12th proposal on the ballot) passes.  

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