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SciMax Toolbox >> harmonic_mean

harmonic_mean

Maxima Function

Calling Sequence

harmonic_mean (list)
harmonic_mean(matrix)

Description

The harmonic mean, defined as

n
--------
n
====
\     1
>    --
/     x
====   i
i = 1
Example:

(%i1) load (descriptive)$
(%i2) load (numericalio)$
(%i3) y : [5, 7, 2, 5, 9, 5, 6, 4, 9, 2, 4, 2, 5]$
(%i4) harmonic_mean (y), numer;
(%o4)                   3.901858027632205
(%i5) s2 : read_matrix (file_search ("wind.data"))$
(%i6) harmonic_mean (s2);
(%o6) [6.948015590052786, 7.391967752360356, 9.055658197151745,
                            13.44199028193692, 13.01439145898509]

See also functions and .

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