Did I say mandatory? I meant optional! You’re “free” to die in a cardboard box under a freeway as a market capitalist scarecrow warning to the other ants so they keep showing up to make us more!

    • @howrar@lemmy.ca
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      162 months ago

      Colloquially, average is the mean. Mathematically, average can be either mean, median, or mode.

    • @UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
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      22 months ago

      No, that’s just the arithmetic mean. There a other often more appropriate means that can be used. Arithmetic mean is just the one most commonly taught.