It determines two very important factors: the guaranteed CPU cycles the LPAR will get at any point in time, and the base unit of measurement for utilization statistics.
Interval - an interval scale is a scale of measurement in which the distance between any two adjacent units of measurement (also known as intervals) is the same, but the zero point is arbitrary.
That directly implies that if we were to select either one of the twomeasurement points shown as a reference point then clearly we would not see all the modes of the structure.