How about we coin it now? We could call it a Thiel.
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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)
#92Better languages will let you call the variable just "accuracy", but with type "float 0 to 1 inclusive" with some literal syntax; so from function FuncName(float AccuracySOMETHING) to function FuncName([0...1] accuracy)
Which languages allow this? It looks suspiciously like dependent typing to me
Re: A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)
#93I 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.)
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Re: A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)
#94“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.
There is an answer by someone who suggested a neologism, check the link for source.
Re: A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)
#95I don't think this is a naming issue at all. In the provided example, 'Accuracy' is the correct name for the parameter, as that's what the parameter represents, accuracy. The fact that accuracy should be given as a value in an interval from 0 to 1 should be a property of parameter type . In other words, the parameter should not be a float, but a more constrained type that allows floats only in [0,1]. EDIT: Some of yo…
yeah, right, so what do you call such a type? I believe that is the actual question.
Re: A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)
#96Perhaps a word that means “Almost Nothing”.
Piddling: amounting to very little; trifling; negligible
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#97Depending on context I would use ratio saturated (if something is clamped to 0-1) normalized (if it is scaled down using a max value)
I don't like "ratio" because, though this might just be me, I already have a bad habit of assuming, incorrectly, that every ratio in my code is meant to stay smaller than +1.
That sounds valid, no reason for ratio to be <= 1. It usually is but not always I guess
Re: A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)
#98I don't think this is a naming issue at all. In the provided example, 'Accuracy' is the correct name for the parameter, as that's what the parameter represents, accuracy. The fact that accuracy should be given as a value in an interval from 0 to 1 should be a property of parameter type . In other words, the parameter should not be a float, but a more constrained type that allows floats only in [0,1]. EDIT: Some of yo…
I think this is the best answer.
This got me thinking: What about a situation where the accuracy is given in a real-life unit. For example, the accuracy of a GPS measurement, given in meters. I've sometimes used names like 'accuracyInMeters' to represent this, but it felt a bit cumbersome.
Edit: Thinking more about it, I guess you could typealias Float to Meters, or something like that, but also feels weird to me.
Re: A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)
#99"Normalized". That's what we call data that have been scaled to fit on a tidy axis.
I am trying to think of what the opposite word is of normalization.
Re: A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)
#100Creating a type that is defined as being between one and zero would be more helpful and then the name can reflect the usage of the value
Sure, but then you still have to name the type.