Timeline for Given a herd of horses, how do I find the average horn length of all unicorns?
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| Jan 11, 2016 at 22:18 | answer | added | sacundim | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jan 8, 2016 at 3:12 | history | closed |
Tulains Córdova Jimmy Hoffa user53019 gnat Scant Roger |
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| Jan 8, 2016 at 3:11 | comment | added | moarboilerplate | @corsiKa 5--the average would only apply to unicorns (or horned horses) | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 3:01 | answer | added | Jonah | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 2:53 | comment | added | corsiKa | If you have 10 horses, two of which are unicorns of length 4 and 6 is your average 5 or is it 1? | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 22:39 | answer | added | Martin Maat | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 22:09 | answer | added | Karl Bielefeldt | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 21:12 | comment | added | moarboilerplate | @JimmyHoffa "you're doing it wrong" happens to be an acceptable "non-answer," and oftentimes better than "well, here's one way you could do it"--no extended discussion required. | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 20:49 | comment | added | Jimmy Hoffa | If your question is best answered with a non-answer, then it doesn't belong on a Q&A site; reddit, quora, or other discussion based sites are built for non-answer type stuff... that said, I think it may be clearly answerable if you're looking for the code @MasonWheeler gave, if not I think I have no idea what you're trying to ask.. | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 20:43 | history | edited | moarboilerplate | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 7, 2016 at 20:37 | comment | added | Scott Whitlock |
Ooooh, you could add a property to horse like: public float? HornLength { get; }
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| Jan 7, 2016 at 20:34 | comment | added | Stephen P | @Mason - true, and the horses at the 10-unicorn gate would be a problem too. Inversion is only occasionally useful, but the tactic is there. | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 20:29 | comment | added | moarboilerplate | @nanny cool, let me just store that in this variable here. | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 20:23 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | @StephenP: That wouldn't work mathematically for this case; all those 0s would skew the average. | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 20:23 | comment | added | Stephen P | In this abstract case, you could invert the relationship and decide that a Horse IS-A Unicorn with a fixed horn length of 0. That inversion sometimes works for real-world cases too. | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 20:22 | comment | added | nanny | @moarboilerplate Anywhere from 10 to infinity. | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 20:22 | answer | added | Mason Wheeler | timeline score: 36 | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 20:21 | answer | added | Scott Whitlock | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 20:19 | comment | added | moarboilerplate | @ScottWhitlock Yeah, but how many times can my horses go through a gate that has a 10-unicorn-per-day limit? | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 20:16 | comment | added | Scott Whitlock | Horses don't have horns, so average is undefined (0/0). | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 20:13 | history | asked | moarboilerplate | CC BY-SA 3.0 |