Wouldn't this only work for an even ammount of numbers? Like 1, 2, 3, 4 has 4 numbers...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Widmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: php.general To: "Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Middle Number > At 09:45 PM 12/6/02 -0500, Stephen wrote: > >How can you find the meadian (or middle number) of a list of numbers? If > >there is an even amount of numbers, how would I still find it? > > > load the list into an array, in numeric order... > > then: > > $List = array( 1,2,3,4,5,6 ); > > $Middle = ( count( $List ) - 1 ) / 2; > > $median = ( $List[ floor( $Middle ) ] + $List[ ceil( $Middle ) ] ) / 2; > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
