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Haim Zamir
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Nov-11-10, 09:35 AM (EST)
 
"glaring apportionment error"
 
   Your apportionment computations have an error, in that they ignore the fact that the lower quota is never less than one. According to your site, some states would get zero representatives, and this is not true of any system.

Please advise by email if you ever fix it.

Also you neglected to mention that for some applications, where the number of representatives to be distributed *must* be fixed, the Hamiltonian method is superior due to its lack of bias.


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alexbadmin
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Nov-11-10, 09:44 AM (EST)
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1. "RE: glaring apportionment error"
In response to message #0
 
   >Your apportionment computations have an error, in that they
>ignore the fact that the lower quota is never less than one.

While what you say is correct, it's a constitutional requirement to ensure a representative for every state, however small. Ignoring this requirement by the applets make them useless in some situations - I admit that. So it does make sense to amend the applets to account for the possibility of relatively small states. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I'll be looking into that.

>Also you neglected to mention that for some applications,
>where the number of representatives to be distributed
>*must* be fixed, the Hamiltonian method is superior due to
>its lack of bias.

Which page exactly do you have in mind?


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