Use Python to find the mean of an unsorted list

Tracyrenee
Dec 25, 2021

In math and statistics, the mean is the average of a list of numbers. The mean is calculated as:-

The sum of observations / the number of observations

With Python it is easy to calculate the mean of a list of numbers because there are libraries that contain functions to calculate the mean. For example, Python has a library, statistics, that will automatically compute the mean.

Wouldn’t it be nice, however, to be able to calculate the mean using basic mathematical steps? It is not difficult to…

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Tracyrenee

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