Hello Geoff

The answer I got is that there are twelve candidates in the first round for the April 2022 election.

So if one gets 49.9 % and the others are nearly equal, the one with the most votes amongst those eleven candidates gets into the second round, and if the supporters of all of the ten candidates eliminated in the first round then vote for the candidate who came second in the first round, then he or she count win in the second round.

Whilst that is highly likely not to happen, it does mean that if one candidate gets around 20%, then it become almost a random selection of who contests that person in the second round if the other candidates do approximately equally well.

This thread was just an interesting mathematical look at what can happen when so many candidates take part in the first round.

If I remember correctly the present French electoral system was designed to give stability so that a majority of the people who had voted had voted for the person who became The President of France.

This was not intended as a thread about politics, it was intended as a thread about mathematics.

William

Thank you for reading it and for the feedback.

William

Anybody?

The thread has stuck at 212 views, so let's move it forward please.

William

Thank you for posting that link, Jack.

The part which I particularly noticed was about describing the colour of something as (the same as/like) the colour of (something named).

So, my wording, something like,

The colour of leaves in summer.

The colour of holly berries.

Another thing I noticed was saying that the colour blue was not widely known before industrialization.

There was ultramarine, as a pigment, from lapis lazuli, which was rare.

I have a recollection of something from years ago about making food in the colours of political parties.

Labour Party was easy, tomatoes. Liberal Party (as I think it then was) was easy, carrots, but there was a problem for Conservative Party. This was, I think, before blueberries became poplular, and I have a vague memory of mashed potatoes with added food colouring being suggested.

William

Hi Geoff

Alas, yet thank you for replying.

The part in Chapter 17 of my first novel that was influenced by what you had posted in the Serif lounge forum is the part about the airship.

You had posted about an airship and that was therefore a topic that I had in my mind at the time, so I wrote about an airship and that developed into something for the story. I like to think that the part inspired by the airship is amongst the best pieces of my writing.

William

I know that the Grower's Harvest version used to list vitamin D in the ingredients but now it lists vitamin D2.

I do not know if the product changed its forumulation and therefore its labelling or just the labelling.

D2 is from plants, D3 can be somewhat unknown as to whether its source is vegan, unless stated specifically.

If it just says D it is unknown which it is.

I think it is not regarded as lacking but that if they were included it would not be organic.

William

Ah.

Yet the fortified versions of unsweetened soya drink have added calcium.

The ones I have also have vitamin B12 and vitamin D2 as well.

William

Has Geoff or anyone else folowed the links in my previous post and had a read please?

Either the ending of the first novel or the start of the first novel, or maybe dipped-in to a chapter inthe middle?

If dipping-in, I like to think that Chapter 34 is one of the best chapters in the novel.

By the way, the way that the forum has displayed the sequence of three links can give the impression that I have put the same link twice by mistake, yet that is not the case, there are three documents.

By the way Geoff, one chapter of the first novel includes something inspired by a post that you made in the Serif lounge forum.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_017.pdf

Here is an author note written before Chapter 17 was written.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_013.pdf

I am glad that I included some author notes and dated them. The novel was written from June 2016 to February 2019, so the author note mentioned was quite early in the writing process.

Please know that each chapter of the novel has the date of its publication built-in to its document properties, which can be accessed from Adobe Reader.

William

A basic mobile telephone.

William