Re: Another little puzzle

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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:

> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
>
>> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@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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