[issue35698] [statistics] Division by 2 in statistics.median

STINNER Victor added the comment: > I find Steve's closing of the issue premature, but I'm not going to reverse > it. Steven D'Aprano is the maintainer of the module (he wrote 450 and implemented it), he has the last word. Steven D'Aprano, Raymond Hettinger and me are 3 core developers and

[issue35698] [statistics] Division by 2 in statistics.median

Jonathan Fine added the comment: I'm still thinking about this. I find Steve's closing of the issue premature, but I'm not going to reverse it. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue35698] [statistics] Division by 2 in statistics.median

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: I agree that for numeric data, it isn't worth changing the behaviour of median to avoid the division in the case of two equal middle values. Even if we did accept this feature request, it is not going to eliminate the change in type in all circumstances. me

[issue35698] [statistics] Division by 2 in statistics.median

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > As a pure mathematician, to me 1.0 means a number that is > close to 1. Whereas 1 means a number that is exactly 1. Descriptive statistics performed on a computer using actual measurements is pretty far from "pure mathematics" ;-) Making this change is

[issue35698] [statistics] Division by 2 in statistics.median

Change by Brett Cannon : -- title: Division by 2 in statistics.median -> [statistics] Division by 2 in statistics.median ___ Python tracker ___ ___