Statistics from a 256-Bucket Frequency Array

CodingCitadelLast reported July 2026Low Frequency

Reported: 1× across candidate reports
First seen: July 2026
Last reported: July 2026
Reported outcome: unknown

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You are given an array of length 256 whose entries are frequencies. For example, [2, 5, 8] means 0 appears 2 times, 1 appears 5 times and 2 appears 8 times. Compute the statistics of the real data this frequency array represents: the maximum, the minimum, the median, the standard…

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