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>> i made some mistake here <<

The table you don't understand shows the median but you seem to be calculating the arithmetic mean.




Ok, i don't get it. Can you show me the formula i should be using?

Or even better: Try to explain in detail why on the overview page perl is claimed to be slower than Ruby, when in a direct comparison it is not.


You don't know how to calculate the median?

http://www.robertniles.com/stats/median.shtml


English is not my primary languages and especially english maths are hard for me to grasp. That's why i am asking you to demonstrate, using the actual numbers for Ruby and Perl, what calculations should be performed to gain the numbers your site is showing.

Also, in addition, after reading your link, the situation seems even worse. Using the median Perl outperforms Ruby by ~15%, but the main site does not reflect that at all.




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