RE: spoon-business: CFJ: The Proposal Eating Gremlin Eats Decimals --RESCINDED

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

I rescind the CFJ below.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Van Matre 
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:07 AM
> To: spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: spoon-business: CFJ: The Proposal Eating Gremlin 
> Eats Decimals
> 
> 
> 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.  
> 
> --Scoff!
>