beancount

Etymology

From bean + count.

beancount means A statistical measurement that is used as an indicator of something, but which does not capture the whole picture. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 98 out of 100.

noun

A statistical measurement that is used as an indicator of something, but which does not capture the whole picture.“Yet (as Howard Estes points out in his contribution to Chapter 8), these "force exchange" comparisons, although they may reveal more about the relative military capabilities of the two countries than do beancounts, are themselves based on uncertain information about each side's forces.”