Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:60662 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 63703 invoked from network); 22 May 2012 18:56:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 May 2012 18:56:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=kris.craig@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=kris.craig@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.212.170 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: kris.craig@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.212.170 mail-wi0-f170.google.com Received: from [209.85.212.170] ([209.85.212.170:57843] helo=mail-wi0-f170.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 4A/B2-49069-971EBBF4 for ; Tue, 22 May 2012 14:56:58 -0400 Received: by wibhm6 with SMTP id hm6so4053254wib.5 for ; Tue, 22 May 2012 11:56:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=0IdYolIX9i9FdPm/T8S+sVyBGwdFofLz4F4OTL6/4QE=; b=P6sVpnq6GZQW7QxTJXBatKF6fSsWWw5GYOn5l2hr4roWzsJQ9Z9bzzGbT7EGYINLXm HjeMIe7+pLpY086gOMJg73wnsoONIFXWDajhiSmvAx8oqw4LjhJyBEn0P/Z9cz6Kt9Vh dt81KAy+m5T0EP2lcj6hTK1/7hlfL8a5Bh46iVsmgGx+sAQ36mPW656Nh/UFksU6b0dn d8z3GEeUj1L2viqadtdd+4BRLmb/kmKUHVuAA7Aa5cWI9A6Ka5rBkmtpc25crLbuiipX 9QU1DOjdEJwlix+sFl/cFb/kkP+8LXqlwh5nWpY3CFWYyiseDIKAhdx3RLQ2i7V6vJB2 j3rQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.198.1 with SMTP id u1mr14702935wen.92.1337713014973; Tue, 22 May 2012 11:56:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.160.133 with HTTP; Tue, 22 May 2012 11:56:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <263257805.20120522145109@cypressintegrated.com> References: <4FB0AE18.1060902@sugarcrm.com> <29C59974-B01A-4D38-825D-0243479B656F@strojny.net> <57610071.20120521182250@cypressintegrated.com> <8a3feda63367d622651b097233e4aa18.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> <263257805.20120522145109@cypressintegrated.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 11:56:54 -0700 Message-ID: To: Sanford Whiteman Cc: internals@lists.php.net Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e6d63f2a11a36004c0a495ed Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 2/3 = ??? Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC From: kris.craig@gmail.com (Kris Craig) --0016e6d63f2a11a36004c0a495ed Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Sanford Whiteman < swhitemanlistens-software@cypressintegrated.com> wrote: > > Apparently, we are not the only ones confused by edge cases: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority > > Can you point to where there's any suggestion of using the ceiling > (rounding up) instead of requiring whole persons? In fact, the > Wikipedia page matter-of-factly says "...two thirds (currently 34) of > the states...." > > -- S. > > I'm not sure I understand where the conflict is. 2/3 * 50 == 33 1/3. Therefore, 33 states would be just below the required 2/3, while 34 states would be just above it. So the 34 figure you quoted seems to match this perfectly. The article does mention some ambiguity, but that's pertaining to whether the "total" includes everyone who *can* vote or just everyone who *did* vote. As far as I know, that's not relevant to this discussion. --Kris --0016e6d63f2a11a36004c0a495ed--