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The arithmetic, geometric, harmonic and ``tetra'' means of two positive numbers \(p\), \(y\) are respectively \(a\), \(g\), \(h\) and \(t= (p^2+y^2)/ (p+y)\). The sextuplet \((p, y, t, h, a, g)\) is a mean crowd when its entries are positive integers; it is primitive iff the greatest common divisor of its entries (equivalently \(a\) and \(h\)) is 1. The operator \[ (p, y, t, h, a, g)\to (a-g, a+g, a+h, a-h, a, a-p) \] is an involution on (primitive) mean crowds. It is proved that \((p, y, t, h, a, g)\) is a primitive mean crowd if and only if \(p= w^2- wv\) and \(y= w^2+ wv\) for some primitive Pythagorean triple \((u, v, w)\).