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A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)
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#253Onecentage
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#254Weird that it's been flagged as off-topic with no explanation. "I'm looking for a word" seems very on-topic for an stack exchange about a human language.
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#255I 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 would simply put this in the description of the parameter. That’s what it is for; after all, not every constraint is computable or easy to check.
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#256Is there a resource for "help naming stuff"? Naming is hard. Especially so when you dabble in domains you're not learned in. I have almost no math background so sometimes I really struggle to know what to name things. My latest example is, "I need to provide a flag to switch if this element is positive or negative. What do I name the flag?" (came up with simply: sign, or polarity)
For booleans I generally stick to the `isX` format. So in your case, `isPositive` (or `isNegative` depending on your preference)
Good ideas.
But I messed up my own example. The one I was reaching for was a flag to set “clockwise or anti clockwise or neither”
I was looking for the terminology for clockwiseness
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#257perunum
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#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always use ratio for this kind of number. Though it could be bigger than 1 since 120% == 1.2
Yes, 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
Maybe part_ratio? Because you can never take a bigger part than 100%.
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#259Re: A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)
#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
Genuine question, i'm no math expert: if you're using the value by multiplying it with some other value, does that not imply it qualifies as normalised? i.e. say you have a width of 500 and you want to move half way across so you have this value of 0.5 to get 250. By dividing 250 by 500, aren't we in fact normalising it?
> if you're using the value by multiplying it with some other value, does that not imply it qualifies as normalised Certainly, "normalisation" can mean something more general than "rescale to the interval [0,1]". For example, "rescaling to the interval [0, 20]" might make sense in some contexts and would usually count as a type of normalisation, and would still involve muliplying by a number. But that would be multip…
> If it's the latter than that's normalisation.
I'm very clumsily trying to say that if:
width / maxWidth = normalWidth
normalWidth * maxWidth = width.
Edit: formatting