Harmonic Mean - Inequalities

Inequalities

For a set of real variables lying within the interval it has been shown that

where A is the arithmetic mean, H is the harmonic mean, M is the maximum of the interval and s2 is the variance of the set.

Several other inequalities are also known:

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