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by igouy 1486 days ago
The bar in the middle of the box is an "average" - the median.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/average

https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/boxplo...
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gus_massa 1486 days ago
It would be nice to be able to see the numbers in a table (perhaps in a auxiliary page, instead of the main page). Sometimes people want to rearrange the data or use another representation. (log scale? sort by 75% quartile? ...)
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igouy 1486 days ago
For people who want to rearrange the data or use another representation, there are data files —

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...

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