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Enterprise Patterns and MDA: Building Better Software with Archetype Patterns and UML
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Enterprise Patterns and MDA: Building Better Software with Archetype Patterns and UML

by Jim Arlow, Ila Neustadt
December 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
528 pages
10h 7m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 10. Quantity archetype pattern

10.1 Business context

In various places in this book, we have mentioned quantities of things. In this chapter we provide a simple pattern for capturing quantities.

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A quantity is an amount of something measured according to some standard of measurement.

Another way to say this is that a quantity of something is a number expressed in a particular metric.

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A metric is a standard of measurement.

For example, a bag of sugar in the store contains 1 (the number) kilogram (the metric) of sugar (the something). ...

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