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Let {x1,x2,…,xn}\{x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n\}{x1​,x2​,…,xn​} be a dataset of real numbers. Consider the function f(c)=∑i=1n∣xi−c∣pf(c) = \sum_{i=1}^n |x_i - c|^pf(c)=∑i=1n​∣xi​−c∣p for p≥1p \ge 1p≥1. For which value of ppp is the minimizer of f(c)f(c)f(c) always guaranteed to be the sample median (or one of the medians if nnn is even)?