The remaining seats are allocated one at a time, to the state with the highest priority number. Thus, the 51st seat would go to the most populous state (currently California). The priority number is determined by the ratio of the state population to the geometric mean of the number of seats it currently holds in the assignment process, "n" (initially 1), and the number of seats it "would" hold "if" the seat were assigned to it, "n"+1. Symbolically, the priority number "An" is