Investors usually consider the geometric mean a more accurate measure of portfolio performance than the arithmetic mean because it accounts for compounding. Learn more.

What Is a Mean? A mean is the mathematical average of two or more numbers. It can be computed using the arithmetic mean method, which uses the sum of the numbers in the series, and the geometric ...

The simple definition of a mean is that of a numeric quantity which represents the center of a collection of numbers. Here the trick lies in defining the exact type of numeric collection, as beyond… ...

Eugene Salamin, Computation of $\pi$ Using Arithmetic-Geometric Mean, Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 30, No. 135 (Jul., 1976), pp. 565-570 ...

We produce a self contained account of the relationship between the Gaussian arithmetic-geometric mean iteration and the fast computation of elementary functions. A particularly pleasant algorithm for ...