21. The court found that federal statutes require the use of direct-counting methods only for congressional apportionment. 22. The counting method adopted was similar to the Tasmanian Hare-Clark system, or the modern Senate system. 23. The October jobless rate was 4.5 percent, according to European Union counting methods , unchanged from September. 24. Gore suggested the old counting method is outdated. 25. The Laplace transform of order statistics sampled from an Erlang distribution via a path counting method . 26. The numbers didn't add up, but most voters got lost on the technical haggling over counting methods . 27. He said a flawed counting method gave many Senate candidates an undeserved victory in the first round. 28. This represents the limit of direct counting methods ; frequencies above this must be measured by indirect methods. 29. "It is difficult to make comparisons across countries, when the counting methods are different, " he says. 30. :: Yet again : by your counting method , a slight majority preferred option 3 to option 1.