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First solution in Clear category for [old] Median by ZoltanOnody

"use strict";

const median = (data) => {
    data.sort((a, b) => a-b);

    let first = Math.floor(data.length/2);
    if(data.length % 2){
        return data[first];
    }
    
    return (data[first-1] + data[first])/2;
}

July 21, 2016

Comments:

nickie on Sept. 9, 2016, 6:49 p.m.
Just what you'd expect from a sorting solution. Well done! I'm just wondering why you have: <pre class='brush: javascript'>const median = (data) => {...} </pre> instead of the simpler: <pre class='brush: javascript'>function median(data) {...} </pre>

ZoltanOnody on Sept. 9, 2016, 7:05 p.m.
Honestly? I am just used to it and I don't like the function because it changes the scope (however it's not important in this case). If you are interested in the differences in arrow functions and (old) functions have a look on this <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/23045200/2317085">stackoverflow exploration</a>. It is well explained there.

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