Talk:Optimal patent val

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Badness unit?

A badness unit (BU is just a placeholder) would help to factor out the factors and we could write mBU or µBU instead. --Xenwolf (talk) 11:08, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Not a val?

I've been thinking about this concept. It seems like vals are only intermediary here. The actual results, as evidenced by the tables, are not the patent vals per se, but the EDOs possessing them. So maybe "optimal patently-mapped EDO" would be a clearer name for this object. This would make it clear that it is the val which is patent by one concept, and the EDO which is optimal by an entirely separate concept.

Separately I am proposing "simple" as an alternative for "patent", so even better would be "optimal simply-mapped EDO", if you agree with the reasons for simple over patent.