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单词 ContraharmonicProportion
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contraharmonic proportion


Three positive numbers  x, m, y  are in contraharmonic proportion, if the ratio of the difference of the second and the first number to the difference of the third and the second number is equal the ratio of the third and the first number, i.e. if

m-xy-m=yx.(1)

The middle number m is then called the contraharmonic mean (sometimes antiharmonic mean) of the first and the last number.

The contraharmonic proportion has very probably been known in the proportion doctrine of the Pythagoreans, since they have in a manner to (1) described the classical Babylonian means:

m-xy-m=mm  (arithmetic mean m)
m-xy-m=my  (geometric mean m)
m-xy-m=xy  (harmonic mean m)

The contraharmonic mean m is between x and y. Indeed, if we solve it from (1), we get

m=x2+y2x+y,(2)

and if we assume that  xy, we see that

x=x2+xyx+yx2+y2x+yxy+y2x+y=y.

The contraharmonic mean c is the greatest of all the mentioned means,

xhgacy,

where a is the arithmetic meanMathworldPlanetmath, g the geometric meanMathworldPlanetmath and h the harmonic meanMathworldPlanetmath. It is easy to see that

c+h2=aandah=g.

Example.  The integer 5 is the contraharmonic mean of 2 and 6, as well as of 3 and 6, i.e.  2, 5, 6,  are in contraharmonic proportion, similarly are  3, 5, 6:

22+622+6=408= 5,32+623+6=459= 5

Note 1.  The graph of (2) is a quadratic cone surface  x2+y2-xz-yz=0, as one may infer of its level curvesMathworldPlanetmath

(x-c2)2+(y-c2)2=c22

which are circles.

Note 2.  Generalising (2) one defines the contraharmonic mean of several positive numbers:

c(x1,,xn):=x12++xn2x1++xn

There is also a more general Lehmer meanMathworldPlanetmath:

cm(x1,,xn):=x1m+1++xnm+1x1m++xnm

References

  • 1 Diderot & d’Alembert: Encyclopédie. Paris (1751–1777).  (Electronic version http://portail.atilf.fr/encyclopedie/here).
  • 2 Horst Hischer: “http://hischer.de/uds/forsch/preprints/hischer/Preprint98.pdfViertausend Jahre Mittelwertbildung”.  — mathematica didactica 25 (2002). See also http://www.math.uni-sb.de/PREPRINTS/preprint126.pdfthis.
  • 3 J. Pahikkala: “On contraharmonic mean and Pythagorean triplesMathworldPlanetmath”.  – Elemente der Mathematik 65:2 (2010).
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