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geometric mean
geometric meanThe Nth root of the product of a set of N numbers, x1, x2,…, xN. This is written as (Π i x i )1/N. This is defined only when all the xi are positive. The logarithm of the geometric mean equals the arithmetic mean of the logarithms of the x i .
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