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Message #02283
Re: Uniform distribution
> > Change the doc if you feel this is more appropriate, though for me
> > lexically fuzz==dispersion...
> The dispersion of something usually refers to a measure of the distance
> to the center of a distribution. "/radius/ of dispersion" is a common
> expression, "diameter of dispersion" is not, experimental errors are
> given as +/- error, and variance and stdDev in maths are clearly
> distances to the mean.
> I updated the documentation.
Ok, I have no problem with relDisp (ok, better relDispersion, since
"disp" refers more to displacement or display in our context). I would
prefer keeping it dimensionless, since it is easier to scale simulations
then.
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