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But that solves only half of the problem, which was also to keep as much as possible of the original list. By eliminating a big one, you may have overshot your target too much, causing you to eliminate a lot of small ones to make up for it.

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Re^3: Creating a sub-list constrained by an average while maintaining maximum number of original elements
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 01, 2010 at 12:28 UTC

    That is a theoretical possibility, but I challenge you to produce a 100,000 file dataset + target average for which it happens?

    (Note: I only ever discard big ones or little ones; never both!)

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