Re: Another little puzzle

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Date	2022-12-31 10:23 -0800
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Subject	Re: Another little puzzle
From	Augǝl <angel0000000001000000000000@mail.ee>

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Tim Rentsch kirjutas Laupäev, 31. detsember 2022 kl 16:20:09 UTC+2:
> Ben Bacarisse <ben.u...@bsb.me.uk> writes: 
> 
> > Tim Rentsch <tr.1...@z991.linuxsc.com> writes: 
> > 
> >> Ben Bacarisse <ben.u...@bsb.me.uk> writes: 
> >> 
> >> [...] 
> >> 
> >>> I found this problem interesting but only later in the discussion as 
> >>> I have been using this metric for some time. What got interesting 
> >>> (to me) was that there is another sound interpretation of the 
> >>> average as suggested by Tim, [...] 
> >> 
> >> It wasn't my idea. I got it from a posting by Mike Terry on 
> >> December 21. I hadn't seen that formulation of arithmetic mean 
> >> before and I was amazed that it worked. So I can't really take 
> >> any credit for the suggestion. 
> >> 
> >>> ironically prompted but a general definition of what might 
> >>> constitute an average that I had posted and failed to follow 
> >>> through on. 
> >> 
> >> I remember your posting as coming after the one by Mike Terry, 
> >> and so I thought your comments were derived from his. Sorry if 
> >> my conclusions there were off the mark. 
> > 
> > You are right in that MT posted the same general formulation 9 hours 
> > before I did (though I'd not seen that). My confusion came from your 
> > explanation, to me, of "conventional average": 
> > 
> > "Sorry, I meant to refer to your formulation of average" 
> > 
> > followed by the formula I gave rather than then entirely equivalent 
> > one given by MT.
> Ahh, that makes sense. My comment muddied the waters; I was 
> thinking of your formula and the MT formula as the same, and 
> rather inadvertently said "your formulation" (after all, I was 
> responding to and had quoted your formula) without mentioning 
> that I had also read MT's post before responding.
> > Anyway, the credit I'm giving is for your considering this a 
> > reasonable thing to try calculate for arc lengths, rather than
> > [...] 
> 
> Thank you for that. And in that respect I think I can modestly 
> say that some credit is deserved (especially considering the 
> amount of effort it took to code something up that calculated 
> this measure).

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Re: Another little puzzle Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-12-30 01:00 +0000
  Re: Another little puzzle Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-12-29 23:25 -0800
    Re: Another little puzzle Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-12-30 14:04 +0000
      Re: Another little puzzle Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-12-31 00:24 +0000
        Re: Another little puzzle Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-12-31 06:42 -0800
          Re: Another little puzzle "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2022-12-31 17:04 +0100
            Re: Another little puzzle Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-01 01:24 +0000
            Re: Another little puzzle Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-01-08 07:45 -0800
              Re: Another little puzzle "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2023-01-08 17:17 +0100
                Re: Another little puzzle Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-08 20:41 +0000
                Re: Another little puzzle Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2023-01-08 21:14 +0000
                Re: Another little puzzle "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2023-01-08 22:31 +0100
                Re: Another little puzzle Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-09 03:25 +0000
                Re: Another little puzzle "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2023-01-09 11:22 +0100
                Re: Another little puzzle Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-09 20:37 +0000
                Re: Another little puzzle "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2023-01-10 09:06 +0100
                Re: Another little puzzle Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-11 02:41 +0000
                Re: Another little puzzle "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2023-01-11 10:01 +0100
                Re: Another little puzzle Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-12 01:00 +0000
                Re: Another little puzzle Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-01-10 23:36 -0800
                Re: Another little puzzle Y A <ya00000100000@yahoo.com> - 2023-01-11 02:39 -0800
          Re: Another little puzzle Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-01 01:10 +0000
            Re: Another little puzzle Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-01-08 07:17 -0800
              Re: Another little puzzle Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-08 19:43 +0000
                Re: Another little puzzle Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-08 19:59 +0000
                Re: Another little puzzle Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-01-10 23:25 -0800
      Re: Another little puzzle Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-12-31 06:20 -0800
        Re: Another little puzzle Augǝl <angel0000000001000000000000@mail.ee> - 2022-12-31 10:23 -0800

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