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  Javascript classes, Please take a look at my question below Rahul Reddy <rahulreddy160@gmail.com> - 2015-04-08 10:46 -0700
    Re: Javascript classes, Please take a look at my question below Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2015-04-09 11:14 +0200
    Re: Javascript classes, Please take a look at my question below JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2015-04-09 19:50 +0700
      Re: Javascript classes, Please take a look at my question below Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-04-09 16:17 +0200
        Re: Javascript classes, Please take a look at my question below JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2015-04-10 10:57 +0700
      Re: Javascript classes, Please take a look at my question below "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-04-09 16:37 +0200
    Re: Javascript classes, Please take a look at my question below Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2015-04-09 21:44 +0200
      Re: Javascript classes, Please take a look at my question below Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 14:22 +0000
      Re: Javascript classes, Please take a look at my question below Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-04-11 22:14 -0400

#27250 — Javascript classes, Please take a look at my question below

The seats allocated to a party are calculated by this method in two steps:

In the first step the corresponding number of votes that are attributable to a party is multiplied by the total number of available seats and divided by the total number of valid votes.

In the second step the result is split into the integer portion and the rest. The integer parts are attributed to the respective party as seats. The remaining seats are allocated to parties in the order of the size of the fractional portions.
Exemplary data (assuming all votes are valid):

Total seats: 15
Votes: A => 15000, B => 5400, C => 5500, D => 5550

Result should be
Seats: A => 7, B => 2, C = 3, D = > 3

Write a class that calculates  for a variable number of parties and seats and include the needed two lines how to call your class.

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#27257

On 4/8/2015 7:46 PM, Rahul Reddy wrote:
> The seats allocated to a party are calculated by this method in two steps:
>
> In the first step the corresponding number of votes that are attributable to a party is multiplied by the total number of available seats and divided by the total number of valid votes.
>
> In the second step the result is split into the integer portion and the rest. The integer parts are attributed to the respective party as seats. The remaining seats are allocated to parties in the order of the size of the fractional portions.
> Exemplary data (assuming all votes are valid):
>
> Total seats: 15
> Votes: A => 15000, B => 5400, C => 5500, D => 5550
>
> Result should be
> Seats: A => 7, B => 2, C = 3, D = > 3
>
> Write a class that calculates  for a variable number of parties and seats and include the needed two lines how to call your class.
>

Dear Rahul,

You asked this question before.
All that responded to you told you to do your own work.
Except Dennis, he actually wrote some 'code' for you. ;-)

If you have a piece of code *you* wrote all by yourself, please post it.
I am sure some kind soul in here will help you from there.
But nobody is willing to write it from scratch for you.
(Unless you pay our regular hourly wages).

Regards,
Erwin Moller


-- 
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without 
evidence."
-- Christopher Hitchens

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#27261

On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 10:46:28 -0700 (PDT), Rahul Reddy wrote:
> The seats allocated to a party are calculated by this method in two steps:
> 
> In the first step the corresponding number of votes that are attributable to a party is multiplied by the total number of available seats and divided by the total number of valid votes.
> 
> In the second step the result is split into the integer portion and the rest. The integer parts are attributed to the respective party as seats. The remaining seats are allocated to parties in the order of the size of the fractional portions.
> Exemplary data (assuming all votes are valid):
> 
> Total seats: 15
> Votes: A => 15000, B => 5400, C => 5500, D => 5550
> 
> Result should be
> Seats: A => 7, B => 2, C = 3, D = > 3
> 
> Write a class that calculates  for a variable number of parties and seats and include the needed two lines how to call your class.

This is more like math problem rather than JavaScript.

Here's an example for A.

Total_Votes = A + B + C + D
A_Share% = A / Total_Votes x 100
A = A_Share x Total_Seats / 100

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#27268

JJ wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 10:46:28 -0700 (PDT), Rahul Reddy wrote:
>> [Programming homework question]
> 
> This is more like math problem rather than JavaScript.
> 
> Here's an example for A.
> 
> Total_Votes = A + B + C + D
> A_Share% = A / Total_Votes x 100
> A = A_Share x Total_Seats / 100

<facepalm/>

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#27289

On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 16:17:03 +0200, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> 
> <facepalm/>

<wiggle/>

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#27272

JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> wrote on 09 apr 2015 in comp.lang.javascript:

> On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 10:46:28 -0700 (PDT), Rahul Reddy wrote:
[..]
>> Write a class that calculates  for a variable number of parties and
>> seats and include the needed two lines how to call your class. 
> 
> This is more like math problem rather than JavaScript.

I would suggest the possibility that the OP indeed talks about
"Javascript classes", where his homework assignment originates.

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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#27281

On 2015-04-08 19:46, Rahul Reddy wrote:
> In the second step the result is split into the integer portion and
> the rest. The integer parts are attributed to the respective party as
> seats. The remaining seats are allocated to parties in the order of the
> size of the fractional portions.

I would reject this algorithm as incomplete.

    Example input: 10 seats, votes: 50 A, 35 B, 15 C

Does C get one or two seats?
What should the program do if it can't find an unambiguous distribution?

(Amusingly, Denis's solution would solve this specific example by simply
adding a seat.)

- stefan

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#27303

On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 21:44:45 +0200, Stefan Weiss wrote:

> (Amusingly, Denis's solution would solve this specific example by simply
> adding a seat.)

Denis didn't claim his solution was complete either. ;)

Although it might provide a starting point for someone trying to develop 
their own code. Or not.

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

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#27334

On 4/9/15 3:44 PM, Stefan Weiss wrote:
> On 2015-04-08 19:46, Rahul Reddy wrote:
>> In the second step the result is split into the integer portion and
>> the rest. The integer parts are attributed to the respective party as
>> seats. The remaining seats are allocated to parties in the order of the
>> size of the fractional portions.
>
> I would reject this algorithm as incomplete.
>
>      Example input: 10 seats, votes: 50 A, 35 B, 15 C
>
> Does C get one or two seats?
> What should the program do if it can't find an unambiguous distribution?
>
> (Amusingly, Denis's solution would solve this specific example by simply
> adding a seat.)
>
> - stefan
>

There is a fundamental problem with ANY vote system of how to handle 
ties. The simplest case would be 1 seat, two parties, equal votes. The 
next level would be 2 seats, 3 parties, or 3 seat, 2 parties with equal 
votes. Fundamentally, such a case (due to the symmetry) can't (from what 
I see) have a solution other than going to chance or a new vote, or 
maybe have some other body "vote" to break the tie. With typical number 
of votes in a real election, the odds of having a true tie gets small, 
and if the number of seat is large having a lottery choose might not be 
unreasonable (perhaps add a extra tie breaking rule biasing cases like 
the above one way or the other, but these couldn't handle the 50/25/25 
case due to symmetry, that would need to go to another stage (lottery or 
re-vote, etc).

Sometimes adding a seat is a viable solution, but properly if you add 
(or remove) a seat, you should redo the whole calculation and I suspect 
it may be possible that there are cases when you do this the extra seat 
goes elsewhere. You also run into the issue that normally the number of 
seats is set by a more fundamental law (and may be constrained by the 
actually number of physical seats).

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