A mathematical model of Athenian democracy (594–322 BC) is considered. Indicators of popularity, universality, and goodness are introduced to evaluate single political leaders, the Assembly, the Council of 500, and magistrates. The popularity is a spatial characteristic of representativeness, the average percentage of the population whose opinion is represented on a number of questions. The uni...

Spartan FPGAs are an exciting, new alternative for implementing digital designs that, previously, would have employed ASIC 1 technology. Pre-existing ASIC intellectual property 2 can be adapted for use with Spartan devices by following a straightforward procedure. Each step of the pro-1. For the purposes of this application note, ASIC refers to mask gate array. 2. The term intellectual property...

Ever since Antiphanes brought on the stage a character, perhaps Comedy herself, complaining that comedy was more difficult to compose than tragedy (fr. 189.17-23 K-A), it has become something of a truism to say that the poets of Old Comedy had at their disposal much richer and less generically restricted literary possibilities than their colleagues working in tragedy. Comments Postprint version...