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Re:Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method (2022) by meindnoch on Sunday November 03, 2024 @05:09AM (#42032198)
But that's not true, unless by "average" you mean the median.
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Re:Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method (2022) by KeplerBoy on Sunday November 03, 2024 @05:29AM (#42032274)
Normally, it's all the same.
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Re:Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method (2022) by meindnoch on Sunday November 03, 2024 @06:08AM (#42032385)
Only if the distribution has zero skewness.

Unless "normally" you mean the normal distribution, which indeed has zero skewness.

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Re:Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method (2022) by KeplerBoy on Sunday November 03, 2024 @01:47PM (#42035155)
Yes, it was a admittedly bad pun.
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