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Old July 18th, 2004, 02:17 PM
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Default Re: Mixed unit morale

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Originally posted by Blitz:
I can't believe you numbskulls have to argue about the definition of average. Any fourth grader knows that to find the average add em up and divide by the number of things.
Well, that is one average, often called arimetric average. You could also mulitply the numbers and then take i to power of the reciprok number of factors... that would be the so-called geometric average. And so on. And often it makes more sense to use a median anyway.
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