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From: buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Risc System/6000
Message-ID: <505@siswat.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 90 15:41:39 GMT
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>    Why are SPECs the geometric mean rather
>    than average by the way?

If you think about MIPS, etc., on a log scale, then the geometric mean
is the average of the logarithms.


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