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Interface Positionable

All Superinterfaces:

java.lang.Comparable<Positionable>

All Known Implementing Classes:

Category

public interface Positionable
extends java.lang.Comparable<Positionable>

The idea of being positionable is to place a point somewhere along a one-dimensional axis This is very natural for numerical data, but can be applied to categorical data too.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	position() Map the Positionable object to a numeric value (a double) so that it can be positioned on an axis.

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Method Detail

position

double position()

Map the Positionable object to a numeric value (a double) so that it can be positioned on an axis.

Returns:

the position of the object