REPLY Lets Talk Buckets (SD6374)

[SDMAIL wakeland]

Posted by  wakeland at pdx.edu

The word bucket is a fine synonym for the word stock in the SD  
context, but since the terms stock and flow are well established and  
intuitive, I believe they should remain the primary descriptors.

Some people use the word storage (also good), others use state  
variable (good for some audiences) or reservior (ditto).  I'd suggest  
adding the word bucket to the list of good synonyms for the word  
stock.  I'm sure there are many more for various specific contexts.

Wayne Wakeland
Systems Science Program
Portland State University 
Posted by  wakeland at pdx.edu
posting date  Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:17:04 -0700