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In lugnet.admin.general, Steve Bliss writes:
> > In other words, the "one vote from the system of zero" is only conceptual
> > -- it produces a needed counter-behavior in the voting, but it doesn't
> > literally and mechanically need to be carried out...just mathematically
> > carried out.
>
> And it at least as much sense to have an implicit 'indifferent' vote
> from the system as it does to have a special rule for the case of zero
> votes.
Well, the neat thing is, either way, there actually isn't a special case after
all. That is, in the specific case of zero votes, there doesn't have to be a
logic-fork because the sum of zero votes is 0, and dividing 0 by n+1 (n=0) is
still 0. :)
--Todd
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| (...) And it at least as much sense to have an implicit 'indifferent' vote from the system as it does to have a special rule for the case of zero votes. Steve (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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