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!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-in.ntli.net!newsrout1-win.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe2-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: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:15:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.100.88.147 X-Complaints-To: http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport X-Trace: newsfe2-gui.ntli.net 1110932110 81.100.88.147 (Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:15:10 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:15:10 GMT Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9458 Date: 2005-03-16T00:15:10+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:24:50 +0000, Marius Amado Alves wrote: >> Fraction! > > Does that include the upper bound of 1? Yes. "Fraction" is probably the most common technical term for the concept you describe. "a fraction is part of an entire object" "what fraction of the energy is lost on impact?" in chemistry "mass fraction" in statistics "sampling fraction" in cardiology "ejection fraction" in meteorology "cloud fraction" etc. we have "decimal fractions" (generally 0.0 to 1.0) and "proper fractions" like 3/5, 1/4 and "improper fractions" like 7/5 but "proportion" is also good. -- Adrian