title: Proportional fairness
text: # Proportional fairness
  
  Proportional fairness may refer to:
  
  * Proportional division - a division of a resource among $n$ partners such that each partner receives a part worth for him at least $1/n$ of the whole.
  * Proportional-fair rule - a rule for selecting between alternatives. Aims to attain a balance between efficiency and fairness.
     * Proportional-fair scheduling - a network scheduling algorithm based on similar principles.
  * Proportional representation in electoral systems.
  