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Delta and offset mean the same thing — the difference between two amounts.

Delta is perhaps slightly more obscure outside of a math setting. Perhaps.



I feel like choosing the synonym that happens to be one letter shorter when the operation is literally intended to track things in a way that's more conscise is about as "apt" as it could be!




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