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by theandrewbailey 3682 days ago
Median is the middle value of all values in a sequence. Average is the sum of all numbers in a sequence, divided by the count of values.

Take [0,2,100]: average is 34, but median is 2.

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nostrebored is just pointing out that the median and arithmetic mean are both averages.
I'm being needlessly pedantic, but yeah.