Re: [opensuse] [OT] How much power does a PC really consume?

Neil wrote:
Sorry, I did. It fell off when I fixed the shifts that apeared when
copying. Fixed it again.
I seem to have forgotten what the bar meant. I knew it when I needed
it for a test, but I lost it.
Is it the arithmic mean? The arithmic mean is a way of averaging, if
wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_mean) is correct.
The average of a sine (if N cycles are taken) is 0.
If the arithmic mean of a sine is plotted over a time period the
result would be the exact same sine.
The result of this would be that RMS is a useless value. It is not,
and therefore my reasoning must be flawed somewhere. Does anyone have
the time, knowledge and will to take the quest of finding this flaw? I
seem to be unable to.

While the average of sin x over an an entire cycle is zero, it's not for sin^2 x, which of course never goes negative.

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