On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 12:19 PM David Mertz <mertz@gnosis.cx> wrote:
Under a partial ordering, a median may not be unique.  Even under a total ordering this is true if some subset of elements form an equivalence class.  But under partial ordering, the non-uniqueness can get much weirder.

I'm sure with more thought, weirder things can be thought of.  But just as a quick example, it would be easy to write classes such that:

    a < b < c < a

In such a case (or expand for an odd number of distinct things), it would be reasonable to call ANY element of [a, b, c] a median. That's funny, but it is not imprecise.

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