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Subject: Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean
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On Sat, Jul 9, 2016, at 01:26, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> hmean and gmean
> 
> harmonic_mean and geometric_mean

The latter, definitely.

> Remember that the arithmetic mean is just called "mean".

so? (also maybe it shouldn't be?)