BrowserUk,
Your algorithm is the best I found so far, but it still has the bug with repeated numbers.
I came out with a suboptimal solution, but in more than 100.000 arrays your code wins in every case the answer are different and there are no repeated elements.
Now it does it only with more than 2 repetitions as in @array = (57,57,57,43,32). Would there be any way of solving that bug for any array no matter how many repeated elements it contains?
I've tried but I don't seem to be able to do it. Your code is really tight and it's difficult for me to modify it.
Sorry for the bugging. I really appreciate your efforts.
Pepe

In reply to Re^4: Divide array of integers into most similar value halves by Pepe
in thread Divide array of integers into most similar value halves by Pepe

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