This quantity is approximated via the convergence of iteratively reweighted least squares in Weiszfeld’s algorithm. In image processing, salt-and-pepper noise is effectively reduced by a nonlinear filter named for this quantity. Two subproblems have size one-fifth n and seven-tenths n in the recurrence of an algorithm that computes this quantity. Using two heaps computes this quantity for a stream input in a problem about its “maintenance.” This quantity appears twice in the name of an (*) pivot-finding algorithm that runs in asymptotically worst-case linear time. The optimal runtime of quicksort occurs when the pivot always equals this value of the subarray. One way to find this quantity is to sort an array and get the element at index closest to half the array length. For 10 points, name this quantity equal to the 50th percentile of a data set. ■END■
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 60% | 20% | 40% | 70.33 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 102.67 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 117.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Hunter | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 45 | -5 |
| Liam Kusalik | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 49 | 15 |
| Henry Cafaro | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | BHSU Rebirth | 65 | 15 |
| Dan Ni | hawk two of | Clown Squad | 67 | 15 |
| Max Brodsky | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Clown Senpais | 76 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 79 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 83 | 10 |
| Aaron Dos Remedios | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 94 | -5 |
| Eshan Pant | just one more half-dot bro | Walston et. al. | 99 | 10 |
| Jananan Arulseelan | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 99 | -5 |
| Dylan Minarik | BHSU ReFantazio | WashU | 118 | -5 |
| Zaid Asif | 12 Litres of Green Tea | Cope is the thing with feathers | 125 | 10 |
| Sky Hong | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 129 | 10 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northeast by Northwestern | Notre Dame | 132 | 10 |
| Jeremy Cummings | WashU | BHSU ReFantazio | 138 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 138 | 10 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 138 | 0 |
| Jason Zhang | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 138 | 0 |