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          Volume 3, Issue 5, Article 71 | 
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             A Monotonicity Property of Ratios of Symmetric Homogeneous Means
 
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          Authors:  | 
          Peter A. Hästö,  | 
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          Monotonicity,  Strong inequalities,  Extended mean values,  Gini's mean,  Seiffert's mean,  Relative metrics. | 
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          Date Received: 
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          23/02/02 | 
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          Date Accepted: 
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          24/09/02 | 
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             26E60,26D15,26D05. 
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          Editors:  | 
          Feng Qi,   | 
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          Abstract: | 
           
               We study a certain monotonicity property of ratios of means, which we call a strong inequality. These strong inequalities were recently shown to be related to the so-called relative metric. We also use the strong inequalities to derive new ordinary inequalities. The means studied are the extended mean value of Stolarsky, Gini's mean and Seiffert's mean.
             
          
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