On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Jonatan Kilhamn <jonatan.kilh...@gmail.com> wrote: > -Tiger, who also did away with the "Geo. Mean" since e didn't know > what it meant.
It's just a fancy name for the square root of the product. The reason for it is that the product has the annoying property of increasing quadratically as points are gained. Geometric mean converts that to an easier-to-grok linear scale. Thanks for covering for my lapse in recordkeeping. -root
