Re: Homework 8 - Median Function

[William Stein]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Michael Snider <snid...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Professor Stein,
>
> In our median functions that we make, can we say that we expect ordered
> output? Or should I account for the case where the list is unordered.

Please write a function that can deal with the case where the list is
unordered, even though the given input [1..10^n] is ordered. Don't
worry, it isn't hard, since lists have a sort method:

sage: v = [3,8,1,2,5]
sage: v.sort()
sage: v
[1, 2, 3, 5, 8]

>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael Snider
>

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