Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean
Rustom Mody
rustompmody at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 03:28:47 EDT 2016
On Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 10:56:27 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> As requested in issue 27181 on the bug tracker, I'm adding functions to
> calculate the harmonic and geometric means to the statistics module.
>
> I'd like to get a quick show of hands regarding the names. Which do you
> prefer?
>
> hmean and gmean
>
> harmonic_mean and geometric_mean
>
>
> Remember that the arithmetic mean is just called "mean".
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue27181
>From fuzzy memory of sitting in statistics classes decades ago
filled with μ-σ etc I'd suggest μ gμ hμ
And before I duck and run let me just tell my dear Chris I was only ½-joking
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