Re: Supermajority requirement off-by-one error, and TC chairmanship
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> Because of the error you're making. With 6 people, 2/3 of the votes
> is 4 votes, with no error. "more than 2/3" needs 5 votes, or 5/6th.
> So even though the stated requirement is "more than 2/3", the actual
> requirement is "at least 5/6th". The difference is 1/6th of the
> votes, or 16 2/3%. In other words, due to the small sample, the
> requirement is more than 16% higher than intended.
With 6 people, 1/2 of the votes is 3 votes, with no error. "more than
1/2" needs 4 votes, or 4/6th. So even though the stated requirement is
"more than 1/2", the actual requirement is "at least 4/6th". The
difference is 1/6th of the votes, or 16 2/3%. In other words, due to
the small sample, the requirement is more than 16% higher than
intended.
[Wonderous how the numbers work out exactly the same.]
Don Armstrong
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