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Recent Examples of arithmetic mean
And would that be the arithmetic mean, or the geometric mean?
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Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2010
To find the median of an even number of values, take the middle two and then find the pair's arithmetic mean of those two.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2021
Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2010
To find the median of an even number of values, take the middle two and then find the pair's arithmetic mean of those two.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arithmetic mean
Noun
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Over that course of time, the president's approval rating has largely remained unchanged, give or take a few points, based on averages of multiple polls.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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Newark Airport is open but experiencing a ground delay, with departures delayed an average of 262 minutes—or approximately 4 and a half hours—according to the FAA’s National Airspace System dashboard.—
Suzanne Rowan Kelleher,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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The outsize date complication, meanwhile, has come to define Lange’s aesthetic, but its positioning on the dial is equally important: Located at 1 o’clock, its window is proportioned according to the golden mean of 1.618 and is machined from the same metal as the watch case.—
Oren Hartov,
Robb Report,
17 Oct. 2024
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Embodied is working to achieve a kind of anthropomorphic golden mean with its bot: not so mechanical that children lose interest but not realistic enough for kids to humanize it.—
Webb Wright,
Scientific American,
5 June 2024
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