Sentences with phrase «ordinal systems»

In ordinal systems (Plurality, Ranked, Borda, etc), abstentions are mathematically equivalent to «nay» votes.

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Third, it was not possible to attain a financial model which ended a system regarded as unjust (quantified as between 7 % and 10 % of Catalonia's GDP, figures that led to the use of the term «fiscal despoliation» in political debates), nor respect for the «ordinal principle» once the territorial transfers have been made.

Whereas Satterthwaite's version only applies to ordinal voting systems, Gibbard's version applies to all deterministic voting systems, including non-ordinal ones.

In the 1870s a German mathematician named Georg Cantor discovered a new system of numbers, called cardinals and ordinals, which for the first time, as Kruskal puts it, include actually infinite individual numbers.

In the whole intellectual history of humankind, says Kruskal, there have been only a handful of genuine totally ordered number systems: the naturals, the integers, the rationals, the cardinals, and the ordinals.