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mathematicians because of their importance in geometry and music.They can now be regarded as special cases of a family of functions appropriately called the generalized means.

Definition

The three Pythagorean means are defined by the equations

Properties

Each mean, , has the following properties for positive real inputs:

; First-order homogeneity: This ensures the physical value of the mean must be the same, for any

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