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Topic: Calculating averag but leaving highest and lowest number out ?
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hihihi

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Re: Calculating averag but leaving highest and lowest number out ?
Posted: Apr 19, 2005 7:09 AM
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mwelinder@gmail.com wrote:

> Gnumeric's TRIMMEAN most certainly sorts. The example from the
> beginning
> of this thread yields 3.333... as expected.

Thats what i get also.
But with my actual 6 numbers it goes wrong.

21.5
20.2
22.8
20.7
22.5
29.9

I can't see what i did wrong.
Here is a small example
http://home.wanadoo.nl/hihihi/temp/gnumeric-trimmean-perhaps-bug.gnumeric


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