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by secondcoming 794 days ago
That’s not the formula for a rolling average though
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It is the formula for an exponentially weighted moving average.

Which is not appropriate here...

An exponential moving average is a form of weighted rolling average that would match the plain-text description in the complaint and is often used in signal processing as an IIR low-pass filter (an unweighted rolling average over a window is an FIR filter)