From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,dc514dabf8cf4a08 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!212.101.4.254.MISMATCH!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!newsfeed.freenet.de!62.253.162.218.MISMATCH!news-in.ntli.net!newsrout1-win.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe6-gui.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" Subject: Re: The right term: perunitage? User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:43:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.100.88.147 X-Complaints-To: http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport X-Trace: newsfe6-gui.ntli.net 1110926589 81.100.88.147 (Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:43:09 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:43:09 GMT Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9456 Date: 2005-03-15T22:43:09+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:26:47 +0000, Marius Amado Alves wrote: > Sorry for the possible OT-ness. > > What is the standard mathematical/engineering term, if any, for a rate > expressed as a real number between 0 and 1? > > "Uniformly_Distributed" sounds too domain-bound. And it's horribly long. > > "Percentage" made me think of "perunitage" but this does not exist, > right? > > Thanks a lot. Fraction! -- Adrian