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  2. Median (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    There are four medians, and they are all concurrent at the centroid of the tetrahedron. [10] As in the two-dimensional case, the centroid of the tetrahedron is the center of mass. However contrary to the two-dimensional case the centroid divides the medians not in a 2:1 ratio but in a 3:1 ratio (Commandino's theorem).

  3. Median - Wikipedia

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    At most, one can say that the two statistics cannot be "too far" apart; see § Inequality relating means and medians below. [ 5 ] As a median is based on the middle data in a set, it is not necessary to know the value of extreme results in order to calculate it.

  4. Geometric median - Wikipedia

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    For the 1-dimensional case, the geometric median coincides with the median.This is because the univariate median also minimizes the sum of distances from the points. (More precisely, if the points are p 1, ..., p n, in that order, the geometric median is the middle point (+) / if n is odd, but is not uniquely determined if n is even, when it can be any point in the line segment between the two ...

  5. Commandino's theorem - Wikipedia

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    It can be used to prove the following theorem about the centroid of a tetrahedron, first described in the Mathematische Unterhaltungen by the German physicist Friedrich Eduard Reusch : [8] [9] One may find the centroid of a tetrahedron by taking the midpoints of two pairs of two of its opposite edges and connecting the corresponding midpoints ...

  6. Median of medians - Wikipedia

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    Thus if one can compute the median in linear time, this only adds linear time to each step, and thus the overall complexity of the algorithm remains linear. The median-of-medians algorithm computes an approximate median, namely a point that is guaranteed to be between the 30th and 70th percentiles (in the middle 4 deciles). Thus the search set ...

  7. Median graph - Wikipedia

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    The median of three vertices in a tree, showing the subtree formed by the union of shortest paths between the vertices. Every tree is a median graph. To see this, observe that in a tree, the union of the three shortest paths between pairs of the three vertices a, b, and c is either itself a path, or a subtree formed by three paths meeting at a single central node with degree three.

  8. Talk:Median - Wikipedia

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    You can order them, so you can find the "middle" one(s). For even cardinality, there are two candidates. You cannot compute the average of those. You can, however, employ a _single_ definition for the median that allows for both candidates to qualify as the median: The median is the object in the sorted list whose distance from the center is ...

  9. Mediant (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    If two fractions a/c < b/d are adjacent (neighbouring) fractions in a segment of F n then the determinant relation = mentioned above is generally valid and therefore the mediant is the simplest fraction in the interval (a/c, b/d), in the sense of being the fraction with the smallest denominator.