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Please let me know if this is inappropriate. I don't know how to type TeX in wiki. So maybe it is better to paste the link of my question here: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4198466/is-this-decomposition-of-convex-combination-always-feasible Thank you very much!
The square root of (a*b), divided by (a+b), equals 0.5 if and only if a=b. In any other case, the quotient is less than 0.5. I've established this experimentally, but I can't see why it's the case. I've only considered positive a and b, but what about negative a and/or b? -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 02:07, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
My favorite proof is to let and , so and . Thus which, holding constant, reaches a maximum when which means . 2601:648:8202:350:0:0:0:2B99 ( talk) 09:56, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
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Please let me know if this is inappropriate. I don't know how to type TeX in wiki. So maybe it is better to paste the link of my question here: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4198466/is-this-decomposition-of-convex-combination-always-feasible Thank you very much!
The square root of (a*b), divided by (a+b), equals 0.5 if and only if a=b. In any other case, the quotient is less than 0.5. I've established this experimentally, but I can't see why it's the case. I've only considered positive a and b, but what about negative a and/or b? -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 02:07, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
My favorite proof is to let and , so and . Thus which, holding constant, reaches a maximum when which means . 2601:648:8202:350:0:0:0:2B99 ( talk) 09:56, 18 July 2021 (UTC)