Actually parameters, in computer science, are defined within possible ranges. A parameter uysually has a limiting value or boundary beyondwhich it can't be set and returns ann error. It has nothing to do with perimeters, which are geometrical bounds, but then again computerists talk about areas of information as "spaces". Marketing people talk about market niches in terms of "spaces" -- comes from too many MBAs trained in Excel and Powerpoint slides thinking that fancy graphs are real. These are part of a longer-term trend to use mental or intellectual terms to characterize the real world, making existence into a giant intellectual video game. Bad moon on the right, folks!

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