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A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)

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Re: A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)

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post #58

Isn't that just the decimal part? In my mother tongue (Serbo-Croatian) it's common to call this just the decimals - e.g. in 12.34 the decimals would be 34... I'm really surprised that English doesn't have a similar short name for this?

Would that include 1 however? If you take the decimal part of something then there is no difference between 0.00 and 1.00 which is I think part of the problem here

Re: A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)

#62

"Normalized". That's what we call data that have been scaled to fit on a tidy axis.

That's a good suggestion. 'Normalizing' is also used to refer to taking a vector and scaling it to make its length equal to 1. Google tells me it's also used in an analogous way elsewhere in maths.

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/NormalizedVector.html

Re: A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)

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post #57

I heard percentage (0-100), promillage (0-1000, per mille) and perunage (0-1) in school. This was not in an English speaking country. So for me "perunage" sound very logical. "Un" means one in French (cent=100 and mille=1000).

Perunage seems to occur in the Dutch dictionary too.

Re: A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)

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post #2

“mantissa” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_logarithm#Mantissa_and_... ) comes close, but excludes 1. IEEE 754 sort-of has that as a part of a float, too ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significand ), and people use the term “mantissa” for it, but it has to special-case 0. ⇒ barring better suggestions, I think I would stretch the definition of mantissa a bit further.

Can we just represent 1 here as 0.999...?

Re: A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)

#67
post #57

I heard percentage (0-100), promillage (0-1000, per mille) and perunage (0-1) in school. This was not in an English speaking country. So for me "perunage" sound very logical. "Un" means one in French (cent=100 and mille=1000).

While percentages are denoted as numbers between 0-100, they actually represent numbers between 0-1. Though you can have things like 120% so it's not perfect.

Re: A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)

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post #67
post #57

I heard percentage (0-100), promillage (0-1000, per mille) and perunage (0-1) in school. This was not in an English speaking country. So for me "perunage" sound very logical. "Un" means one in French (cent=100 and mille=1000).

While percentages are denoted as numbers between 0-100, they actually represent numbers between 0-1. Though you can have things like 120% so it's not perfect.

I did not mean it cannot exceed 1/100/1000.

> they actually represent numbers between 0-1

Not really. The often represents, for instance, a population of 100M, then 0 means 0, 1 (or 100%) means 100M and 1.2 (or 120%) means 120M (in case of population growth).

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