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September 2008
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voting paradox

How long will you live? How should you write down numbers? Who's your ideal partner? How good is our voting system? And what is a differential equation? These are difficult and momentous questions. This issue of Plus has some answers, along with a tour of digital art and the usual range of podcasts, news and reviews.

Tags: voting systems : Arrow's theorem : voting : election : voting paradox : Condorcet winner : Condorcet paradox