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NAME

Algorithm::MedianSelect::XS - Median finding algorithm

SYNOPSIS

 use Algorithm::MedianSelect::XS qw(median);

 @numbers = (21, 6, 2, 9, 5, 1, 14, 7, 12, 3, 19);

 print median(@numbers);
 print median(\@numbers);

 print median(\@numbers, { algorithm => 'bubble' }); # slow algorithm
 print median(\@numbers, { algorithm => 'quick'  }); # default algorithm

DESCRIPTION

Algorithm::MedianSelect::XS finds the item which is smaller than half of the integers and bigger than half of the integers.

FUNCTIONS

median

Takes a list or reference to list of integers and returns the median number. Optionally, the algorithm being used for computation may be specified within a hash reference. See SYNOPSIS for algorithms currently available.

EXPORT

median() is exportable.

SEE ALSO

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/files/median.shtml

AUTHOR

Steven Schubiger <schubiger@cpan.org>

LICENSE

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html