This page documents an OPTIMADE Property Definition. See https://schemas.optimade.org/ for more information.
ID: https://schemas.httk.org/defs/v0.1/properties/core/length_precision
Definition name: length_precision
Property name: Length precision
Description: The absolute precision of a stated length, in ångström.
Type: float
This describes how precisely a length was stated by the source it came from, rather
than the precision of the number as stored. A cell edge written 5.6402 claims a
precision of about 0.0001 ångström; one written 5.6402(3) claims 0.0003, since an
explicitly stated uncertainty overrides what the digits alone would imply.
Requirements/Conventions:
null MUST be used where the precision is unknown.Examples:
0.00010.0003JSON definition:
{
"$id": "https://schemas.httk.org/defs/v0.1/properties/core/length_precision",
"$schema": "https://schemas.optimade.org/meta/v1.2/optimade/property_definition.json",
"title": "Length precision",
"x-optimade-type": "float",
"x-optimade-definition": {
"label": "length_precision_core",
"kind": "property",
"version": "0.1.0",
"format": "1.3",
"name": "length_precision"
},
"type": [
"number",
"null"
],
"description": "The absolute precision of a stated length, in \u00e5ngstr\u00f6m.\n\nThis describes how precisely a length was *stated* by the source it came from, rather\nthan the precision of the number as stored. A cell edge written `5.6402` claims a\nprecision of about `0.0001` \u00e5ngstr\u00f6m; one written `5.6402(3)` claims `0.0003`, since an\nexplicitly stated uncertainty overrides what the digits alone would imply.\n\n**Requirements/Conventions**:\n\n- The value is an **absolute** bound on the deviation from the intended value, in the same\n units as the length it describes, and is neither a relative precision nor a count of\n significant figures.\n- Where a set of lengths is described by a single value, it SHOULD be the **coarsest**\n precision among them.\n- Where a source states both a number of digits and an explicit standard uncertainty, the\n value SHOULD be the larger of the two, that being the weaker and therefore the safer\n claim.\n- Precisions of quantities in other units, such as the angles of a unit cell, MUST NOT be\n combined into this value; they are not lengths and combining them would produce a\n quantity in no units at all.\n- The value MUST be strictly positive. A value of zero would assert exactness, which is a\n different claim; `null` MUST be used where the precision is unknown.",
"examples": [
0.0001,
0.0003
],
"x-optimade-unit": "angstrom"
}