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From: Live and Let Live
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:13
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:13
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"LarryG" <no.return.addr@none.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:37:23 GMT, Alan R. Weiss <alan@ebenchmarks.com>
> wrote:
>
> > "Don Saklad" <dsaklad@nestle.csail.mit.edu> wrote in message
> > news:y44d62157dd.fsf@nestle.csail.mit.edu...
> >> Thank you John !
> >>
> >>
> >> a. Step by step what are the mathematical procedures for tabulating
> > elections
> >> ballots in Cambridge Massachusetts?...
> >>
> >>
> >> b. What are the algorithms compiled in the software used for tabulating
> >> elections ballots in Cambridge Massachusetts?...
> >
> > In Cambridge, Mass:
> >
> > if (!DEMOCRAT)
> > {
> > ++votecount;
> > } else
> >
> > {
> > ++trashcan;
> > }
> >
> >
> > But for the Presidential Debates:
> >
> > if (!DEMOCRAT) || (!REPUBLICAN)
> > {
> > ++ignore_Libertarians;
> > *League_Of_Women_Voters_Bank_Account = dollars;
> > }
> >
> >
> > With apologies to K & R.
> >
> > Alan
>
>
> Eh, . . . that last one should read:
>
> if (!DEMOCRAT) && (!REPUBLICAN)
> ---------------^^
Maybe he meant :
if !(DEMOCRAT || REPUBLICAN)
>
>
> Been a while since you touched code?
>
> Cheers,
> Larry G.
>
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