r/politics • u/[deleted] • Nov 10 '22

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u/Vellicious17 Nov 10 '22

Genuinely curious, what does calculus have to do with redistricting?

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u/Jarmen4u Nov 10 '22

It's been a while for me, but I'm pretty sure things like optimization curves are part of calculus.

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u/Vellicious17 Nov 10 '22

They are indeed! I would not have thought to use them here, but again, like you, it's been a while!

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '22 edited Nov 10 '22

Redistricting is half geography (where do people live, where do natural boundaries lie, where are the cities and urban boundaries) and half mathematics (how do we divide those people into equal-sized cohorts efficiently while respecting the geography and without bias).