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Short pieces from behind the apps, each one worked through with real numbers rather than described in the abstract. Everything in them can be reproduced in the app it names.

  • From Agenda Simulator

    A majority can be walked anywhere

    McKelvey's chaos theorem, shown with a five-voter case: three fair votes, two of which move further from the destination.

  • From Agenda Simulator

    Voting weight is not voting power

    Two blocs with double the votes of a third, and exactly the same power. The Banzhaf index, with the arithmetic shown.