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Name for the area under a curve.

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Welshbird

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Is there as specific name for this? My colleague and I can't find one, but I thought you guys must know.

Fee

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I do believe the technical term is 'area under a curve'. But most laymen just call it the area under a curve.

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Thanks for that then.

Yes.


Hmm.

As my colleague is Mr Marianos we are going to call it the Marianos coefficient then.

Fee

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==> Marianos coefficient
Why coefficient? What is the coefficient multiplying?

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In maths that is called the "definite integral" if memory serves me right.

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Er, nope, it isn't.

A definite integral is one which comes out to a calculable answer. Definite integrals are often used to calculate the area between specified lines (e.g. the horizontal axis and a curve) but it by no means is the name thereof.

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As I recall from Statistics (many years ago), it is indeed called the area under the curve. :)

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If the curve is defined by a mathematical function, then 'Integral' or 'Riemann Integral' may be acceptable
 
Hmmm.... my name for being under the curve was a "C-"...

Think Grade curve if that was too obtuse.



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Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg
 
Fair enough - It can't be a coefficient.

Marianos ******

Help us out chaps!

Fee

"The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea." Isak Dinesen
 
How about Marianos Differential? Its actually the net area between a curve and a line in this case...

Fee

"The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea." Isak Dinesen
 
I'd stay away from differential as well. When dealing with functions, the differential measures the changes in the linear nature of functions.

I think that strongm's suggestion of 'Riemann Integral' makes the most sense since that's the formula used to calculate the area under the curve. Just as
[π]r[sup]2[/sup] = Area of a circle with radius r
[∫][sub]a[/sub][sup]b[/sup] f(x) dx = Area under the curve created by the function f(x) from point a to point b. That is a Reimann Integral.

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A shadow?

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You could probably call it the area of a bounded region - unless, of course, you prefer to call it the area under a curve.
 
When I was a teenager, my mother taught me that the specific name for "the area under a curve" is abbreviated DNT...Do Not Touch <grin>.

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I had a teacher in high school who called it The Landscape. I haven't heard that term for it since.
 
When we were told to calculate the area under the curve, I heard it called a lot of names! [purpleface]


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Welshbird, perhaps you can call it "The Marianos area". It sounds very specific.
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