L' Eomot Inversé (11/5/2012)
Up to now, nothing nasty. I'll have to address the rest of your post in a separate message, because I don't want to mix the civilised part of this exchange with the uncilvilised part (and that, incidentally, illustrates one of the differences between us).
There are many differences between us...
L' Eomot Inversé (11/5/2012)
you are (...) an ignoramus
L' Eomot Inversé (11/5/2012)
you are not just an ignoramus but an arrogant and self-important ignoramus
Only one of us resorts to insults, name-calling and personal abuse to 'make his point'.
L' Eomot Inversé (11/5/2012)
(to use the style of personal abuse that you have chosen to introduce into this dialogue)
Only one of us uses outright blatant lies to justify his "uncivilised" behaviour.
L' Eomot Inversé (11/5/2012)
I could carry on by introducing an attack on your method of calculating averages
Only one of us specifically avoided providing argument against the content of the other's post and instead chose to direct attacks at the other person.
By the way, I would be very interested to learn how you intend improving on the mathematically provable minimum number of required addition operations, and a single division operation.
L' Eomot Inversé (11/5/2012)
I could be even nastier with your method of recalculating the average as elements are deleted, ... to be done by the method you suggest
Only one of us deliberately misrepresents the other's statements in order easily attack them. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man)
To reiterate, the only reason I presented the technique was to illustrate your error in assuming such a calculation would need "an awful lot of compute power to spare".
Futhermore:
Only one of us resorted to quoting his education background, experience and work history in an effort to give credibility to his argument.
Only one of us has made comments suggesting an ageist prejudice.
Only one of us has made statements insinuating the other is "stupid".
You're right: Only one of us chose not to "mix the civilised part of this exchange with the uncilvilised part"; but then again, only one of us chose to write an "uncivilised" post at all.