Talk:Granularity

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This is only my opinion, but this definition doesn't seem to capture the meaning of the term. Granularity is an undesirable property of a system, though in digital systems some degree of granularity is unavoidable. Granularity is what pixellization is in digital imagery, or graininess in traditional photography. Granularity is the opposite of high resolution.

I agree that this article is lacking. It needs expansion, and probably splitting into the very different meanings in different contexts (surely there must also be a geological meaning?) However, granularity is certainly not always undesirable - in taxonomy, thesaurus construction, etc, it has a perfectly good technical meaning which is not at all negative - see Boxes and Arrows --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 14:29, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Increased granularity = coarser, not finer

The example in the lead is backwards. Granularity is basically the concept that you can tell that things aren't continuous. If granularity increases, that means it's more obvious that they aren't -- so the grains are coarser, not finer.

Anyone want to disagree with that, on reflection? 66.96.28.244 03:21, 4 February 2006 (UTC)