2026-05-01 13:31 UTC
I want to know the relative popularity of the Platonic solids, but a Mathstodon poll can have at most four options.
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@tpfto@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-01 13:36
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz how about the following alternative: make this a thread, with one toot for each Platonic solid (probably set to "Quiet public"), and each favorite counts as a vote? Problem with this is people can star more than one toot, so how you deal with dupes is up to you.
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@OscarCunningham@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-01 14:12
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz The poll shows the total number of respondents. So you get five numbers and you want to know five numbers. Just do linear algebra.
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@valhalla@social.gl-como.it 2026-05-01 16:15
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz there is just *one* right way to do it :D civs1.civs.us/ or a similar service (it was one of the first results of an internet search, I don't know whether it's a *good* one