Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail
From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 17:39:51 -0400
Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <mailman.156.1468100398.2295.python-list@python.org>
References: <57808af6$0$1602$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <1468043386.1292856.661217857.45C882AD@webmail.messagingengine.com> <57809936.6020303@stoneleaf.us> <nlqjb2$uj8$1@ger.gmane.org> <CANy1k1hTk_zDsjYQw3xWnNiGnHoAM2Ds6Xs278zMOQ2GbQ4cCQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAGgTfkMnO4cJD24yuHppR69DCwS-uaB+T5uesM=NUJPWqMC_hw@mail.gmail.com> <nlra6n$as$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAGgTfkPKZ5Nn1bU=t97nwiUh=Mz23XUSYpYi2cTnih=qGU-0=w@mail.gmail.com> <5lr2ob5t5ltv071u9itr3p6do52a87tif1@4ax.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 6pMZp9nFtSkPsyL091hSUAcYlRp3AozqfzE8/ekSj8NQ==
Return-Path: <python-python-list@m.gmane.org>
X-Original-To: python-list@python.org
Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org
X-Spam-Status: OK 0.005
X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; '10:17': 0.16; '12:57': 0.16; '2016': 0.16; '>on': 0.16; 'kern': 0.16; 'opcode': 0.16; 'powerpc': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'url:ibm': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'url:home': 0.18; '>>>': 0.20; 'sat,': 0.23; "doesn't": 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'least': 0.27; 'consistency': 0.29; 'obscure': 0.29; 'use?': 0.29; 'michael': 0.33; 'languages': 0.34; 'jason': 0.35; 'robert': 0.35; "isn't": 0.35; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.37; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'jul': 0.72; 'url:htm': 0.75; 'subject:Quick': 0.84; 'dennis': 0.91; 'subject:skip:g 10': 0.91; 'candidate,': 0.95
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-73-117-77.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186
X-No-Archive: YES
X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22
Precedence: list
List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language <python-list.python.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/>
List-Post: <mailto:python-list@python.org>
List-Help: <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=subscribe>
X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <5lr2ob5t5ltv071u9itr3p6do52a87tif1@4ax.com>
X-Mailman-Original-References: <57808af6$0$1602$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <1468043386.1292856.661217857.45C882AD@webmail.messagingengine.com> <57809936.6020303@stoneleaf.us> <nlqjb2$uj8$1@ger.gmane.org> <CANy1k1hTk_zDsjYQw3xWnNiGnHoAM2Ds6Xs278zMOQ2GbQ4cCQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAGgTfkMnO4cJD24yuHppR69DCwS-uaB+T5uesM=NUJPWqMC_hw@mail.gmail.com> <nlra6n$as$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAGgTfkPKZ5Nn1bU=t97nwiUh=Mz23XUSYpYi2cTnih=qGU-0=w@mail.gmail.com>
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:111230

On Sat, 09 Jul 2016 18:31:54 +0000, Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>On Sat, Jul 9, 2016, 12:57 PM Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2016-07-09 17:13, Michael Selik wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 10:17 AM Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >>> +1 for consistency
>> >
>> > What do other languages use?
>>
>> R, the most likely candidate, doesn't have them built-in.
>>
>> scipy.stats uses gmean() and hmean()
>>
>
>SciPy also uses other obscure abbreviations. My least favorite is "eye".

	At least it isn't the PowerPC opcode EIEIO

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_aix_61/com.ibm.aix.alangref/idalangref_eieio_instrs.htm
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/