Quote Originally Posted by Zachm View Post
Your phrasing and formulas are not very clear.
I'm not sure what the linear algorithm should do. The formula is strange.
Please describe it also in words or attach a bitmap of the exact equations.

Regards,
Zachm
here it is:

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6299/algorythm.jpg


sorry for bad posting before. The Algorythm i created finds the average of the numbers, and then finds the element that is the nearest to the average. the complexity is O(6n + 2). but i don't know how to demonstrate that my algortyhm works. thank you