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title: median
tags: math,median,beginner
---
Find the median of a list of numbers
Sort the numbers of the list using the sort function and find the median, which is the middlemost element of the list.
```py
def median(list):
list.sort() # The sort function of python
list_length = len(list)
if list_length%2==0:
return (list[int(list_length/2)-1] + list[int(list_length/2)])/2 # Mean of the middle two elements
else:
return list[int(list_length/2)] # The element in the middle
```
```py
median([1,2,3]) # 2
median([1,2,3,4]) # 2.5
```