the median is the middle in a set of numbers so if you had a set of 5 numbers like -2, -1, 0, 1, and 2 the middle number would be zero.
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Median is the middle value in a set of numbers. The median of 278 is 278.
Then that is the median. A median does not have to be a whole number. It can be a decimal number, even when the set of the numbers you are getting the median for are all whole numbers.
If you order the numbers by size, it is the mean of the third and fourth numbers. Median = (N3 + N4)/2
another word for median would be middle because median is the middle of a set of numbers.
The median is the value which seperates the upper and lower half of a set of numbers. The mean is the average value between two or more numbers. In calculating a set of numbers, specifically a set of averages, the median may indeed be effected by the mean.