Stupid little iota of an idea

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

spir wrote:
> On 02/12/2011 03:05 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> While iota isn't clear, it _does_ have the advantage that you're
>> not going to _mis_understand
> 
> Maybe you say this because iota does not mean anything for you (?). I
> can easily imagine various appropriate uses of iota in a PL, like:
> 
> * smallest representable value in a given numeric format
> * threshold over which some measure should be taken into account
> * threshold under which some difference should be ignored
> * range for approximate equality (approxEquals: |x - y| < iota)
> * tolerance interval of technical measures (similar)
> * ...what else?
> 
	Range with a single element (i.e the smallest non-empty range).
Which is actually how I interpreted “iota” the first time I saw it
(since it was obvious from the context that it was a range).

		Jerome
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