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 a.krey@gmx.de 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
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