The Louvre Museum as seen through the Louvre Pyramid glass in Paris, France. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian is the worldâs largest research and museum complex, with 19 museums and galleries, the National Zoological Park, and various research stations.
Geometric Mean. The Geometric Mean is a special type of average where we multiply the numbers together and then take a square root (for two numbers), cube root (for three numbers) etc. First we multiply them: 2 Ã 18 = 36. Then (as there are two numbers) take the square root: â36 = 6.
DEFINITION of 'Geometric Mean'. The average of a set of products, the calculation of which is commonly used to determine the performance results of an investment or portfolio. Technically defined as the 'n'th root product of 'n' numbers, the formula for calculating geometric mean is most easily written as: