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Send fractional congresspersons to the Capitol
George Szpiro, author of "Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present" is a mathematician and journalist. Szpiro has an interesting op-ed piece in which he offers a brief history of the mathematical paradoxes of apportionment and then argues for an innovative solution: “send fractional congresspersons to the Capitol.”
Sounds impossible, but Szpiro uses Math to show how it might work.
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