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I like that the top-voted answer is a wrong one. (A unit interval is the set [0, 1], whereas the asker wants to know a name for an element of it.)
by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
I like that the top-voted answer is a wrong one.
(A unit interval is the set [0, 1], whereas the asker wants to know a name for an element of it.)
- rocqua 6y agoYeah, this is a pretty significant difference between a set and an element.
- Tainnor 6y agoThe fix is simple: Put the type of the variable in the type name. Then "UnitInterval proportion" tells you everything you need to know.
- tartrate 6y agoThat's three words though, and the SO OP asked for a single word.
- peterhil 6y agoI like this idea of using the type name to define the domain, and variable name to define the purpose.
- pwdisswordfish4 6y agoNames of types usually refer to individual members thereof: number, integer, vector, string, list… A variable of a UnitInterval type would one that holds unit intervals. This is no fix.
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- jberryman 6y agoI guess this is like "mammal" vs "mammalia".
- hinkley 6y ago"Belongs to the unit interval" is correct, but I like to think most of us have gotten enough exposure to cognitive science to know that the brain prefers to have a word or adjective for everything, and that's the problem here. Also, Unit Interval is only an answer to this exact question, not a class of questions to which this one belongs. If the range was [0,5] then you couldn't even shorten it with Unit Interval.