Is it "amount", "bunch", "pack", "wallet" or something else?
The thing here is that I'm a programmer and I'd like to create a new variable to store the number of coins in it, but I'm not sure how to name it in English.
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You could simplify the first sentence like this:
The number of people going home decreases slowly after 6 pm.
Decrease requires an s because we are talking about a number (singular) not the people (plural). slowly should be after the verb so that the reader doesn't visualise people walking slowly.
The number of gives important information, and should be included for clarity. If you leave it out, it sounds like each person gets smaller after 6pm. This meaning is not grammatically correct because a person cannot decrease, but an impression of the incorrect meaning may appear in the reader's mind if you do not start the sentence correctly.
I think you're describing a mullet:
The mullet is a hairstyle that is short at the front and sides and long in the back.
Best Answer
In the context you describe, you don't really want a word for "a bunch of coins", you want a word that means "quantity". "Number", "quantity", "amount", "count", any such word would do. If you have other variables describing the number of other things -- paper bills, credit cards, whatever, I'd use the same word for consistency.
Depending just what you're trying to say, "amount" would likely imply the value of the coins while "count" or "number" would be the number of individual coins. Like if I had 10 nickels, I'd say "count" is 10 but "amount" is probably 50 cents.
I think you do not at all want a word specific to "a bunch of coins". Think of comparable words. If you ran a farm and you had a variable where you stored the number of cows on your farm, a good name would be "number" or "count", just like here. You wouldn't want to call it "herd", because a group of cows is called a herd. set cows.count=47 makes sense and anyone reading the code could easily guess what it meant. set cows.herd=47 ... what does that mean? You have multiple herds and this is number 47? You have 47 herds? It wouldn't help at all.