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authorTom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>2016-12-03 00:57:26 +1300
committerTom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>2016-12-03 00:57:26 +1300
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Be more honest about mode(1df) behaviour
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.B mode
collects all the newline-delimited numbers given as input, and prints the
mode. If two values have the same frequency (i.e. a multimodal distribution),
-it will print the one that reaches that frequency first in the data set.
+it will print one of them, but which one depends on whether your awk(1) sorts
+array indexes...
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Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>