Comparison With Envy-free Division
Obviously, for two players proportional division is the same as envy-free division.
However, for three players and more, proportional division is weaker than envy-free division. It could happen that a player believes he received at least 1/n of the resource but also believes that there is a player that received more than he did. For instance, the Successive Pairs Algorithm for three persons could yield to a situation where the first person thinks that the third player received more than he did (if the portion of the second player part that the third player chose looks bigger - to the first player- than the other portions of the second player part).
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