Mind-Bending Math: Riddles and Paradoxes

Why No Distribution Is Fully Fair (1x12)


Air date: Jul 23, 2015

See how the founders of the U.S. struggled with a mathematical problem rife with paradoxes: how to apportion representatives to Congress based on population. Consider the strange results possible with different methods and the origin of the approach used now. As with voting, discover that no perfect system exists.

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