I looked into this. Apparently Tor often uses the "low median", in cases where it needs to be a middle value, but an inbetween value is not allowed. This is chiefly for voting.
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:49 PM Andreas Krey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:44:48 +0000, Virgil Griffith wrote: > > I mean the median. > > > > >From Wikipedia... > > > > For example, if *a* < *b* < *c*, then the median of the list {*a*, *b*, > *c*} > > is *b*, and, if *a* < *b* < *c* < *d*, then the median of the list {*a*, > *b* > > , *c*, *d*} is the mean of *b* and *c*; i.e., it is (*b* + *c*) / 2. > > In the preceding paragraph wikipedia isn't that strict: > 'the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle > values', > and tor is unusual. :-) > > Andreas > > -- > "Totally trivial. Famous last words." > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> > Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800 > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev >
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