How can I calculate the harmonic mean in Google Sheets?

Calculates the harmonic mean of a dataset.

Sample Usage

HARMEAN(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)

HARMEAN(A2:A100)

Syntax

HARMEAN(value1, [value2, ...])

• value1 – The first value or range of the population.

• value2, ... – Additional values or ranges to include in the population.

Notes

• The harmonic mean of a population is the size of the population divided by the sum of the reciprocals of each of the data points in the population.

See Also

TRIMMEAN: Calculates the mean of a dataset excluding some proportion of data from the high and low ends of the dataset.

SMALL: Returns the nth smallest element from a data set, where n is user-defined.

RANK: Returns the rank of a specified value in a dataset.

QUARTILE: Returns a value nearest to a specified quartile of a dataset.

PERCENTRANK: Returns the percentage rank (percentile) of a specified value in a dataset.

PERCENTILE: Returns the value at a given percentile of a dataset.

MINA: Returns the minimum numeric value in a dataset.

MIN: Returns the minimum value in a numeric dataset.

MEDIAN: Returns the median value in a numeric dataset.

MAXA: Returns the maximum numeric value in a dataset.

LARGE: Returns the nth largest element from a data set, where n is user-defined.

GEOMEAN: Calculates the geometric mean of a dataset.

AVERAGEA: Returns the numerical average value in a dataset.

AVERAGE: The AVERAGE function returns the numerical average value in a dataset, ignoring text.

Examples

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