Geometrical Mean

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 156

Geometrical Mean of two numbers is that number the square of which is equal to the product of the two numbers; thus, the geometrical mean of 9 and 16 is 12, for 9 \times 16 = 144 = 12^2. Hence the geometrical mean of two numbers is found by multiplying the two numbers together, and extracting the square root of the product.

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