Re: Idempotence and "Replication Insensitivity" are equivalent ?
From: Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 23 Sep 2006 08:52:10 +0300
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Date: 23 Sep 2006 08:52:10 +0300
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pamelafluente_at_libero.it writes:
> the Median is the value which minimize the sum of absolute differences
>
> ie. sum | xi - c | is minimum for c = MEDIAN()
If I were Bob Silverman, you'd get one heck of a flaming for posting something so obviously somewhere in between unintelligible and meaningless (including both endpoints) to sci.math.
Phil
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