Cantankerous Circle

The average distance to the centre of a circle is two thirds the radius. For simplicity, say the radius is 1; the average is simply 2/3. How is this average defined? We will be exploring continuous extrapolations of averages using calculus, geometry, and more.

\int_a^b \operatorname f x \ \delta x \, \div (b-a)

We consider this to be the arithmetic mean value of f from a to b. This can be generalized to more than one dimension. But there are other types of average than the arithmetic mean. Consider the following other types of average, specifically applied to a circle:

\iint_R\ln{\operatorname f x}\ \delta A = \ln\text{GM}\cdot A \\[32pt] \iint_R{(\operatorname f x)}^2\ \delta A = \text{QM}^2\cdot A \\[32pt] \iint_R {1\over\operatorname f x}\ \delta A=\frac A{\text{HM}} \\[32pt] \operatorname f n < \text{median}\ \forall\ n \in R_1, \\[4pt] \operatorname f n > \text{median}\ \forall\ n \in R_2, \\[8pt] \iint_{R_1}\delta A = \iint_{R_2}\delta A,\quad R = R_1 \cup R_2

Since, at the origin, some of these means are discontinuous, ignore the boundary. The challenge is to determine the value of these averages for the distance from the centre.

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