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  Average
The type of calculations used in adjusting general average gave rise to the use of "average" to mean "arithmetic mean".
Darrell Huff, How to lie with statistics, Victor Gollancz, 1954 (ISBN 0393310728).
Calculations and comparison between arithmetic and geometric mean of two values
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