And I had said "find the median of a sorted list".

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On Mar 11, 2013, at 2:27 AM, "Linda Alvord" <lindaalv...@verizon.net> wrote:

> I assumed it was already sorted from your examples:
> 
>    f /:~ 8 1 6 7
> 6.5
> 
>   f /:~ 8 1 7 6 2
> 6
> 
> Linda
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>   f=: 13 :'(<.-:#y){-:y+|.y'
> 
>   f
> ([: <. [: -: #) { [: -: ] + |.
> 
> Linda
> 
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> 
> Very neat, thank you.  I won't show you my lengthy solution which led me to
> call for help!  --Kip
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> 
> On Mar 10, 2013, at 7:48 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 6:29 PM, km <k...@math.uh.edu> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Here's one implementation of this definition of median:
>> 
>> mean=: +/ % #
>> median=: (<.,>.)@-:@<:@#  mean@:{  /:~
>> 
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