[HN Gopher] Not Your Grandmother's Textbook Exercise
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       Not Your Grandmother's Textbook Exercise
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2022-09-01 22:10 UTC (49 minutes ago)
        
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       | umanwizard wrote:
       | Presumably the list is not ordered adversarially, so you can just
       | use quickselect, at O(n) running time.
        
       | totoglazer wrote:
       | In that book in 1981 it's quite likely to be a problem faced by
       | the grandmother of many current programmers.
        
       | akudha wrote:
       | _Compute the mean age, and print it out as the median. It 's much
       | easier to program, and Mary Jones will probably never notice the
       | difference._
       | 
       | This made me chuckle
        
       | harry8 wrote:
       | It's an excel file.
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       | (e) Show her the excel function wizard and launch her empowerment
       | for great justice!
        
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