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

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

Good point.  My bad.  I read 256 and passed right over that.  But no worries...I'm just getting warmed up.

--Scoff!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ID Scott [mailto:Iain.Scott.01@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:51 AM
> To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: CFJ: The Proposal Eating
> Gremlin Eats Decimals
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Jonathan Van Matre wrote:
> 
> > 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.  
> 
> Err... Rule 261 refers to the nth gremlin number. Rule 256 states "The
> nth Gremlin number shall be defined to be the Gremlin number 
> divided by
> 120/n, rounded up to the nearest integer", and so rule 261 
> dosent _need_
> to specify how (Gremlin Number)/(120/n) is rounded, cause it dosent
> refer to that, it refers to the _nth Gremlin number_ which  already is
> an integer.
> 
> cheers,
> Iain 
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