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VFP8 Codename Runoff This Afternoon?
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07/09/2001 10:31:17
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00553756
Message ID:
00553766
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>We need to start agreeing on when to have a runoff vote on the top 2 [or 3 if there is a tie] Codenames if no 1 name gets a clear majority [1 more than half of ALL votes cast].
>
>I suggest we start the runoff at 1:00PM UT Time. I think this would be 6:00PM GMT.
>
>Right now there is a 3-way tie for first between Toledo, Thunder and Raptor. Go to the wiki and vote.
>
>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFP8CodenameSuggestions~VFP

I know that "1 more than half of all votes cast" is the usual terminology in this case. However, it would be more correct to say "1/2 more than half of all votes cast", or simply "more than half of all votes cast". "1 more" is correct only for an even number of total votes.

Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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