Discussion on voting systems

[Alex Merry]

On Monday 26 January 2009 12:56:55 Gregory Meyer wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
> > 1 + ( 1 / 72 * 12 )  = 1.17
>
> I think you meant this to be (1 + ( 1 * months_of_active_contribution
> / months_of_project_lifetime ))  The way it is in your example gives
> people with more months a lower result, for instance, a person that
> has been around since the beginning:
>
> 1 + ( 1 / 72 * 72 ) = 1.0001929

Operations without a defined precendence are left-associative.  So, in fact, 
this would be
  1 + ( ( 1 / 72 ) * 72 )
= 1 + ( 0.whatever * 72 )
= 1 + 1
= 2

Although it can be written both more simply and more clearly as
1 + ( months_of_active_contribution / months_of_project_lifetime )

Alex

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