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Welcome to the pop-apportionment wiki!

The pop-apportionment program was originally inspired by me wanting to see how increasing the size of the U.S. House of Representatives would affect the representation of each individual state. It turns out that there was no easy way to do this, so I decided to write my own program to do it in C++!

Along the way I learned about other apportionment methods that have been used by the U.S. House of Representatives to apportion itself besides the current method, so I thought it would be interesting to see how those would affect apportionment as well.

The current apportionment methods in the code are:

1. The Huntington-Hill method
2. The Hamilton method
3. The Jefferson method
4. The Webster method