Penrose method
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penrose-method-307-6491807
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Penrose method
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The Penrose method is a method devised in 1946 by Professor Lionel Penrose for allocating the voting weights of delegations in decision-making bodies proportional to the square root of the population represented by this delegation. This is justified by the fact that, due to the square root law of Penrose, the a priori voting power of a member of a voting body is inversely proportional to the square root of its size. Under certain conditions, this allocation achieves equal voting powers for all p
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Method of allocating voting weight by population
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_method
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2023-04-09T19:38:33Z
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