Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: Another little puzzle Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 23:25:26 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: <864jtdtkt5.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <87tu1diu2s.fsf@bsb.me.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5315b21d6b06d8eb540e6a56a23f5914"; logging-data="646414"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19AnquJAEaGkovX1cnq7z8dzk+krDadu+0=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EGOfwpl6hDfE/RURYW0P+xOl8kE= sha1:imc6Vv+09h1X4fyZ2fkAJC+HqQk= Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:16191 Ben Bacarisse 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.