Parameter

Parameter

Any quantity of a problem that is not an independent variable. More specifically, a term which distinguishes, from dependent variables, quantities which are constants or which may be assigned more or less arbitrary values for purposes of the problem at hand. In computing, parameters passed to a function subroutine are more normally called arguments.

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