El promedio simple (formalmente, la media aritmética) es un invento sorprendentemente nuevo. El primer registro es de 1668. Newton inventó el cálculo diferencial e integral (1666-67) antes de que se documentara el humilde promedio.

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Fuentes

1-Eisenhart, Churchill. "The Development of the Concept of the Best Mean of a Set of Measurements from Antiquity to the Present Day". Presidential Address, 131st Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Colorado State University, 24 de agosto de 1971. págs. 68–69. https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/eisenhart.pdf

2-DB. An Extract of a Letter, Written by DB to the Publisher, Concerning the Present Declination of the Magnetick Needle, and the Tydes, May 23. 1668. Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678), 726-727. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1668.0026