From 23274eaf02f371bed49eba2eee9fde90ff3d6672 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jay Belanger Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 08:50:01 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Fix documentation. * doc/misc/calc.texi (Single-Variable Statistics): Fix the wording of the documentation of the root mean square. --- doc/misc/calc.texi | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/misc/calc.texi b/doc/misc/calc.texi index 06e476d9313..ecf2ef9e5c2 100644 --- a/doc/misc/calc.texi +++ b/doc/misc/calc.texi @@ -20741,9 +20741,10 @@ $$ a_{i+1} = { a_i + b_i \over 2 } , \qquad b_{i+1} = \sqrt{a_i b_i} $$ @kindex u R @cindex Root-mean-square @tindex rms -Another commonly used mean, the RMS (root-mean-square), can be computed -for a vector of numbers by using the @kbd{u R} -(@code{calc-vector-rms}) [@code{rms}]command. +The @kbd{u R} (@code{calc-vector-rms}) [@code{rms}] +command computes the RMS (root-mean-square) of the data values. +As its name suggests, this is the square root of the mean of the +squares of the data values. @kindex u S @pindex calc-vector-sdev -- 2.39.2