On Fri, Jun 10, 2016, at 21:45, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > If you express your performances as speeds (as "calculations per > second") then the harmonic mean is the right way to average them.
That's true in so far as you get the same result as if you were to take the arithmetic mean of the times and then converted from that to calculations per second. Is there any other particular basis for considering it "right"? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com