from today's measurement meeting: > 15:00:20 <virgil> karsten: I've decided I'm going to fix the definition of > median > 15:00:26 <virgil> in the tor sourcecode > 15:00:36 <karsten> virgil: is it broken? > 15:00:53 <karsten> or just not specified as clearly as it should be? > 15:01:01 <virgil> for ordered list {a,b,c,d}, it returns b instead of (b+c)/2. > 15:01:24 <karsten> yes. maybe that's for a reason (which I don't know). > 15:01:40 <virgil> I look forward to hearing this reason when my patch is > rejected. > 15:01:41 <karsten> like, using value (b+c)/2 would break for some reason, > whereas any of a, b, c, d would be fine. > 15:01:45 <Sebastian> you cannot do that > 15:01:51 <Sebastian> without breaking Tor's voting > 15:02:21 <Sebastian> Tor's specification requires low median for a bunch of > directory stuff
I'd be interested in the reason as well.
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