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Re: How do I get the median instead of average?
Posted by: Rick James
Date: June 30, 2010 08:06PM

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I'll get it right eventually :-)
And it will eventually finish.

If you have 1000 items, it will take a million operations to find the median. Just as Peter's link points out.

Peter's SP is better than my AUTO_INCREMENT in that it covers the case of an even number of items. (At least for numeric values.)

If you are using Perl or PHP, most of the SP work could be done there.

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