Interesting Equation

[Cyberdragon]

One day, way back in high school statistics class, I got so bored I started messing with numbers. After a while I discovered an equation that determines the deviation of a series, that only works for a series with a constant sum. I was wondering if it had a name or whether it had any applications. I originally though it could be used to identify an overload on a system with a single power source (I.E. a central breaker that turns off if the deviation of current for all branches exceeds a threshold). What use that would be IDK.

Sorry for horrible notation (I'm on android)
EDIT: fixed the notation

\[ D = \frac{1}{{x_{avg}}^n} \prod_{i=0}^{N} x_i \]

Output: 0 to 1 with lower numbers being higher deviation (or just subtract from one to invert)

[T3sl4co1l]

It's not very clear... can you write that in LaTeX?

I think you're saying,

\[ D = \frac{1}{{x_{avg}}^n} \prod_{i=0}^{N} x_i \]

but not sure.

Tim

[Cyberdragon]

It's not very clear... can you write that in LaTeX?

I think you're saying,

\[ D = \frac{1}{{x_{avg}}^n} \prod_{i=0}^{N} x_i \]

but not sure.

Tim

Yes, like that.

[Halcyon]

... can you write that in LaTeX?

Just out of curiosity, did Internet Explorer always/recently support LaTeX?
I've never seen it render equations properly before, although it's rare that I come across them.

[AntiProtonBoy]

The forum uses Mathjax to parse equations and to render them. It's a JavaStript library.

[Cyberdragon]

The forum uses Mathjax to parse equations and to render them. It's a JavaStript library.

I know nothing about text scripts except for the simple [blah][/blah] ones, but I copy-pasted the correct version.