On 7/14/05, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think of three things when I think of 'average': the mean, the median, > and the mode. Saying just "average" isn't very useful in and of itself. > However, nobody else seems to think of it in this way, so I wonder where > I got the idea from.
I think of it that way, and I got it from my fourth grade math teacher. I thought it was so cool that there was this technical difference that I burned it into my memory circuits. But, my teacher also told me that if I encounter "average" unspecified, I should assume mean. Like, numbers without an exponent are assumed to be to the first power. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
