Abstract. By the help of power series f (z) = ∞ n=0 anz n we can naturally construct another power series that has as coefficients the absolute values of the coefficients of f , namely fa (z) := ∞ n=0 |an| z n . Utilising these functions we show among others thatwhere r (T ) denotes the spectral radius of the bounded linear operator T on a complex Hilbert space while T is its norm. When we have A and B two commuting operators, then