COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Intrinsic Functions

HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006

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MEAN Function

MEAN, a numeric function, returns the arithmetic mean (average) of its arguments.

argument

is a numeric argument.

argument can be an array; for example,

FUNCTION MEAN (ARRAY1(ALL))

returns the arithmetic mean of the elements of the array ARRAY1.

The returned value is the arithmetic mean (average) of the argument series; that is

where n is the number of arguments.

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MEANFUNCTION argument

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