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Formulation F7762 on D3306: Real harmonic mean
F7762
Formulation 1
Let $x_1, \dots, x_N \in (0, \infty)$ each be a D5407: Positive real number.
A D993: Real number $a \in (0, \infty)$ is a harmonic mean of $x_1, \dots, x_N$ if and only if \begin{equation} \underbrace{\frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{a} + \cdots + \frac{1}{a}}_{N \text{ times}} = \frac{1}{x_1} + \frac{1}{x_2} + \cdots + \frac{1}{x_N} \end{equation}