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Majority
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The Boyer-Moore Majority Vote Algorithm determines if there in a list of votes
is a candidate that holds more than half of the majority, and if so, finds
this candidate. It does so in time linear in the length of the input list and
constant memory. For a detailed description of the algorithm, see these papers:

  * Wim H. Hesselink,
    \"/The Boyer-Moore Majority Vote Algorithm/\",
    2005;

  * Robert S. Boyer and J. Strother Moore,
    \"/MJRTY - A Fast Majority Vote Algorithm/\",
    1982.

Install
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[Haskell Platform]: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/

Assuming you have installed the [Haskell Platform][] use cabal:

    $ cabal install majority

Bugs
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Comments, bug reports, and patches will be much appreciated:

  * <niswegmann@gmail.com>

License
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This library is distributed under a CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication:

  * <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>