Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 03:28:47 EDT 2016


On Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 10:56:27 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> As requested in issue 27181 on the bug tracker, I'm adding functions to
> calculate the harmonic and geometric means to the statistics module.
> 
> I'd like to get a quick show of hands regarding the names. Which do you
> prefer?
> 
> hmean and gmean
> 
> harmonic_mean and geometric_mean
> 
> 
> Remember that the arithmetic mean is just called "mean".
> 
> http://bugs.python.org/issue27181

>From fuzzy memory of sitting in statistics classes decades ago 
filled with μ-σ etc I'd suggest μ gμ hμ 

And before I duck and run let me just tell my dear Chris I was only ½-joking



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