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majority-judgment-library-java/src/main/java/fr/mieuxvoter/mj/NormalizedTally.java

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package fr.mieuxvoter.mj;
import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.security.InvalidParameterException;
/**
* The deliberator expects the proposals' tallies to hold the same amount of judgments.
* This NormalizedTally accepts tallies with disparate amounts of judgments per proposal,
* and normalizes them to their least common multiple, which amounts to using percentages,
* except we don't use floating-point arithmetic.
*
* This is useful when there are too many proposals for judges to be expected to judge them all,
* and all the proposals received reasonably similar amounts of judgments.
*/
public class NormalizedTally extends Tally implements TallyInterface {
public NormalizedTally(ProposalTallyInterface[] proposalsTallies) {
super(proposalsTallies);
initializeFromProposalsTallies(proposalsTallies);
}
public NormalizedTally(TallyInterface tally) {
super(tally.getProposalsTallies());
initializeFromProposalsTallies(tally.getProposalsTallies());
}
protected void initializeFromProposalsTallies(ProposalTallyInterface[] proposalsTallies) {
Integer amountOfProposals = getAmountOfProposals();
// Compute the Least Common Multiple
BigInteger amountOfJudges = BigInteger.ONE;
for (ProposalTallyInterface proposalTally : proposalsTallies) {
amountOfJudges = lcm(amountOfJudges, proposalTally.getAmountOfJudgments());
}
if (0 == amountOfJudges.compareTo(BigInteger.ZERO)) {
throw new InvalidParameterException("Cannot normalize: one or more proposals have no judgments.");
}
// Normalize proposals to the LCM
ProposalTally[] normalizedTallies = new ProposalTally[amountOfProposals];
for (int i = 0 ; i < amountOfProposals ; i++) {
ProposalTallyInterface proposalTally = proposalsTallies[i];
ProposalTally normalizedTally = new ProposalTally(proposalTally);
BigInteger factor = amountOfJudges.divide(proposalTally.getAmountOfJudgments());
Integer amountOfGrades = proposalTally.getTally().length;
BigInteger[] gradesTallies = normalizedTally.getTally();
for (int j = 0 ; j < amountOfGrades; j++) {
gradesTallies[j] = gradesTallies[j].multiply(factor);
}
normalizedTallies[i] = normalizedTally;
}
setProposalsTallies(normalizedTallies);
setAmountOfJudges(amountOfJudges);
}
/**
* Least Common Multiple
*
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_common_multiple
*
* lcm( 6, 9 ) = 18
* lcm( 4, 9 ) = 36
* lcm( 0, 9 ) = 0
* lcm( 0, 0 ) = 0
*
* @author www.java2s.com
* @param a first integer
* @param b second integer
* @return least common multiple of a and b
*/
public static BigInteger lcm(BigInteger a, BigInteger b) {
if (a.signum() == 0 || b.signum() == 0)
return BigInteger.ZERO;
return a.divide(a.gcd(b)).multiply(b).abs();
}
}