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Volume 33, Number 1, pages 045-054 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2022_1_045
ABOUT THE HARMONIC MEAN OF THE UNIT PARABOLA
Luděk Spíchal*
* Czech Forestry Academy Trutnov, 9 Lesnická, Trutnov 54101, Czech Republic.
E-mail: spichal@clatrutnov.cz
Abstract: The paper deals with the construction of the harmonic mean, which is found geometrically from the reciprocals of positive real numbers using the unit parabola.
Keywords: Harmonic mean, unit parabola, golden section, Pythagorean means.
MSC 2010: 51M15, 26E60.
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