From: tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com   
      
   Ben Bacarisse  writes:   
      
   > Tim Rentsch  writes:   
   >   
   >> Ben Bacarisse  writes:   
   >>   
   >> [...]   
   >>   
   >>> I found this problem interesting but only later in the discussion as   
   >>> I have been using this metric for some time.  What got interesting   
   >>> (to me) was that there is another sound interpretation of the   
   >>> average as suggested by Tim, [...]   
   >>   
   >> It wasn't my idea.  I got it from a posting by Mike Terry on   
   >> December 21.  I hadn't seen that formulation of arithmetic mean   
   >> before and I was amazed that it worked.  So I can't really take   
   >> any credit for the suggestion.   
   >>   
   >>> ironically prompted but a general definition of what might   
   >>> constitute an average that I had posted and failed to follow   
   >>> through on.   
   >>   
   >> I remember your posting as coming after the one by Mike Terry,   
   >> and so I thought your comments were derived from his.  Sorry if   
   >> my conclusions there were off the mark.   
   >   
   > You are right in that MT posted the same general formulation 9 hours   
   > before I did (though I'd not seen that).  My confusion came from your   
   > explanation, to me, of "conventional average":   
   >   
   >   "Sorry, I meant to refer to your formulation of average"   
   >   
   > followed by the formula I gave rather than then entirely equivalent   
   > one given by MT.   
      
   Ahh, that makes sense.  My comment muddied the waters;  I was   
   thinking of your formula and the MT formula as the same, and   
   rather inadvertently said "your formulation" (after all, I was   
   responding to and had quoted your formula) without mentioning   
   that I had also read MT's post before responding.   
      
   > Anyway, the credit I'm giving is for your considering this a   
   > reasonable thing to try calculate for arc lengths, rather than   
   > [...]   
      
   Thank you for that.  And in that respect I think I can modestly   
   say that some credit is deserved (especially considering the   
   amount of effort it took to code something up that calculated   
   this measure).   
      
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