On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 07:12:08AM -0700, chen li wrote:
>
> 2)List::Util is "built-in" as of 5.8, and back
> compatible to 5.5
>
> use List::Util qw(sum);
>
> my $average = sum(@input) / @input;
>
>
> 6)$mean = eval(join("+", @data)) / @data;
>
> Depending on how you understand Perl and what progress
> you are I prefer 6).
I prefer 2, personally. A C library for something like this strikes me
as optimal.
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