What is the Meaning & Definition of Ratio

Ratio is a term agreed by the references of the Spanish language that is used as a synonym for the word reason only in the sense of the ratio of numbers or comparable quantities, i.e., ratio will be the reason or ratio of two related quantities. For example, financial ratios are those coefficients which provide financial units of measurement and comparison. It is through these that the relationship between two financial data will be established and will also make affordable analysis of the State of an organization based on its optimum levels. Meanwhile, data comparison is to be consistent, data to compare must correspond to a period of time and also maintain a financial, administrative, and economic relationship. There are ratios of different types of activity, productivity, balance and financial; for example, the latter allow to measure liquidity, profitability and solvency of the companies. On the other hand, in the field of computer science, the term ratio holds frequent use, since the programs that let you share files of individual person-to-person (P2P), established two types of ratio, i.e. the ratio indicates the relationship between the number of users that have a full share file and the number of users who are downloading the mentioned file. On the other hand, the sharing ratio, is the ratio of rise and drop a user file, for example, if the user in question went up 600 MB of files to a system and on the other hand was downloaded 300 MB, your sharing ratio is 2.0.