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The Maximum Number of Strongly Connected Subtournaments*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Lowell W. Beineke  and
Frank Harary
Lowell W. Beineke
Affiliation:
The University of Michigan
Frank Harary
Affiliation:
The University of Michigan
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In the ranking of a collection of p objects by the method of paired comparisons, a measure of consistency is provided by the relative number of transitive (or consistent) triples and cyclic (or inconsistent) triples. This point of view was introduced by Kendall and Babington Smith [4]. They found a formula for the maximum number of cyclic triples, thereby determining the greatest inconsistency possible. The purpose of this note is to extend the result to obtain the maximum number of "strongly connected" collections of n objects among the given p objects.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , June 1965 , pp. 491 - 498
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1965

Footnotes

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The preparation of this article was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant G-17771.

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