Naming convention for a percentage stored as a value from 0 to 1

Question

Say you&rsquo;re storing a percentage like &ldquo;state tax&rdquo;. You store it as a decimal: 0.4 means 40%. What do you call this type when you need to name a db column or a variable? Technically it is not a percent until you * 100.&ldquo;Decimal fraction&rdquo; seems most correct but is very verbose. No one is writing taxRateDecimalFraction as a var name.

warrenm · Accepted Answer

how about `taxrate`?Or don't store it as a decimal between 0 and 1 - but as a value between 0 and 100 (with possible decimal points, of course), and just call it `taxpct`?

PaulHoule · Answer

Just "fraction".

bell-cot · Answer

"rate", or "tax_rate", or "state_rate", or "state_tax_rate".

warrenm · Answer

>No one is writing taxRateDecimalFraction as a var name.Wait til you see Java or Hungarian Notation

Naming convention for a percentage stored as a value from 0 to 1

how about `taxrate`?
Or don't store it as a decimal between 0 and 1 - but as a value between 0 and 100 (with possible decimal points, of course), and just call it `taxpct`?

Just "fraction".

"rate", or "tax_rate", or "state_rate", or "state_tax_rate".

>No one is writing taxRateDecimalFraction as a var name.
Wait til you see Java or Hungarian Notation