contrageometric proportion
Just as one converts the proportion equation
defining the harmonic mean of and into the proportion equation
defining their contraharmonicmean (http://planetmath.org/ContraharmonicProportion), one also may convert the proportionequation
defining the geometric mean into a new equation
(1) |
defining the contrageometric mean of and . Thus, thethree positive numbers , , satisfying (1) are in contrageometric proportion. One integer example is.
Solving from (1) one gets the expression
(2) |
Suppose now that . Using (2) we see that
accordingly
(3) |
Thus the contrageometric mean of and also is at least equal totheir arithmetic mean. We can also compare with their quadratic mean by watching the difference
So we have
(4) |
Cf. this result with the comparison of Pythagorean means (http://planetmath.org/ComparisonOfPythagoreanMeans); there the brown curve is the graph of .
It’s clear that the contrageometric mean (2) is not symmetric withrespect to the variables and , contrary to the other types ofmeans in general. On the other hand, the contrageometric mean is, as other types of means, a first-degree homogeneous function its arguments:
(5) |
References
- 1 Mabrouk K. Faradj: http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-07082004-091436/unrestricted/Faradj_thesis.pdfWhat mean do you mean? An exposition on means. Louisiana State University (2004).
- 2 Georghe Toader & Silvia Toader: http://rgmia.org/papers/monographs/Grec.pdfGreek means and the arithmetic-geometric mean
. RGMIA (2010).