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Ratio is a word agreed upon by the referents of the Spanish language which is used as synonym of the word reason only in the sense of the quotient of numbers or comparable quantities, that is, ratio will be the ratio or quotient of two related quantities.

For example, financial ratios are those coefficients that provide financial units of measurement and comparison. It will be through these that the relationship between two financial data will be established and also will make available the analysis of the corresponding state of an organization based on its levels optimal.

Meanwhile, for the data comparison to be coherent, the data to be compared must correspond to the same period of time and also maintain a relationship financial, administrative and economic. There are ratios of different types, activity of productivity, from Balance and financial; for example, the latter allow liquidity to be measured, cost effectiveness and solvency of companies.

On the other hand, in the field of

computing, the term ratio is frequently used, since programs that allow person-to-person (P2P) file sharing establish two types of ratio, that is, the ratio indicates the relationship between the number of users who have a file full to share and the number of users who are downloading the mentioned file.

For his part, sharing ratio, is the file upload and download ratio of a Username, for example, if the user in question uploaded 600 MB of files to a system and on the other hand downloaded 300 MB, his sharing ratio is 2.0.

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