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numaverage

NUMAVERAGE(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     NUMAVERAGE(1)

NAME

       numaverage - Find the average of a set of numbers.

SYNOPSIS

       numaverage [-dhiIlmMV] <FILE>

       | numaverage [-dhiIlmMV]    (Input on STDIN from pipeline.)

       numaverage [-dhiIlmMV]	   (Input on STDIN.  Use Ctrl-D to stop.)

DESCRIPTION

       By default numaverage will determine the average from all numbers on input.  Other options allow you to find the mode and median.

OPTIONS

	   -i  Only return the integer portion of the final sum.
	   -I  Only return the decimal portion of the final sum

	   -m  Find the mode (most occuring) of the list of numbers,
	       or when there's more than one mode, the first completed mode.
	   -M  Find the median (middle number) of the list of numbers.
	   -l  When finding the median and the count of numbers in the set is even,
	       use the lower middle number instead of the upper middle number.

	   -h  Help: You're looking at it.
	   -V  Increase verbosity.
	   -d  Debug mode.  For developers

SEE ALSO

       numbound(1), numinterval(1), numnormalize(1), numgrep(1), numprocess(1), numsum(1), numrandom(1), numrange(1), numround(1)

COPYRIGHT

       numaverage is part of the num-utils package, which is copyrighted by Suso Banderas and released under the GPL license.  Please read the
       COPYING and LICENSE files that came with the num-utils package

	 Developers can read the GOALS file and contact me about providing
       submitions or help for the project.

MORE INFO

       More info on numaverage can be found at:

       http://suso.suso.org/programs/num-utils/

perl v5.10.1							    2009-10-31							     NUMAVERAGE(1)