My favorite bit of trivia is related to the following game:
Start with 2 numbers, a and b and calculate HM and GM
Now you have 2 numbers again, so you can play the game again with the new values
Every step brings the results together, one from above, the other from below, sandwiching the value in the limit. That value is called Geometric-Harmonic Mean
This works for all 3 pairs of means (HM-GM, GM-AM, HM-AM). The fun fact I was talking about is about the last combination: playing the game with two "extremal" means, the AM and HM, the value they converge to is GM !!
My favorite bit of trivia is related to the following game:
Start with 2 numbers, a and b and calculate HM and GM Now you have 2 numbers again, so you can play the game again with the new values Every step brings the results together, one from above, the other from below, sandwiching the value in the limit. That value is called Geometric-Harmonic Mean
This works for all 3 pairs of means (HM-GM, GM-AM, HM-AM). The fun fact I was talking about is about the last combination: playing the game with two "extremal" means, the AM and HM, the value they converge to is GM !!