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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