Best not to take this too far in Jprogramming, but why "useless"? Do
you find percentiles and the like distasteful too? They're very useful
for examining empirical distributions, though some care is needed with
interval bounds....
Mike
On 11/03/2013 7:08 AM, Bo Jacoby wrote:
No, Kip. The median is a useless concept. It should not be implemented.
:) Bo.
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Emne: [Jprogramming] Find the median
The median of list 1 2 2 4 6 is 2 ("middle" value of sorted list), the median of 2 2 4 6
is 3 (average of two "middle" values). Write a verb to find the median of a sorted list
of numbers.
--Kip Murray
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