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Ratio? Probability? Proportion? Out of the answers there I like AccuracyNormalized best. That immediately conveys (to me at least) what it is and what its mag
by browserface 6y ago
Ratio? Probability? Proportion?
Out of the answers there I like AccuracyNormalized best.
That immediately conveys (to me at least) what it is and what its magnitude will be bounded by.
Or...if you were writing Java or Swift
NonNegativeMagnitudelessFractionalQuantity
- dep_b 6y agoI always use ratio for this kind of number. Though it could be bigger than 1 since 120% == 1.2
- browserface 6y agoYes, I was thinking something like proper ratio but I don't think that's standard plus I think it's getting pedantic. The takeaway is words are mostly a leaky abstraction, imperfect model for math concepts. But I guess if you're a clever programmer you could call it a ThielAccuracy, or ThielRatio
- dep_b 6y agoMaybe part_ratio? Because you can never take a bigger part than 100%.
- browserface 6y agoYeah, I like that. Or fractional_ratio. With part_ratio tho I'm still not sure which part... (the lesser or greater than 1) part. But I like it because it's shorter. Frac_ratio feels like cheating a bit. But I guess a number that's always between 0 and 1 is an integer reciprocal. But again that's probably getting too deep for this. I guess another way is UnitIntervalPoint or ProperFraction I guess in Java we don't have to choose FractionalPartRatioForAccuracyNormalized hehehe I suppose we could make up a word bition, or bitum anabit or cobit - analog bit (continuous on 0 to 1) proratio - proper ratio Making up a word seems easier than the rest because it's more concise. :)