Isotropy
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Primogeniture is Rational, Too!
Since my last post, six months ago, was on a stupidly clever way of picking a ruler, here's one with a stronger intellectual pedigree: Primogeniture. Why? It implements a depth-first search of the ancestry tree. Computer science meets Political Science, and we don't even bring voting into it. Now that's a smart system!
