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by AndrewDucker 422 days ago
You absolutely don't. The formula they give for calculating seats from votes is very simple and only uses a few letters from the standard alphabet.

The section further with the complicated Greek formulae is for a different voting system, explicitly not the Icelandic one.

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> The section further with the complicated Greek formulae is for a different voting system, explicitly not the Icelandic one.

What? It's for all voting systems. It just defines a set of criteria that are desirable; it doesn't describe any system.