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 // French: 0.32
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+The value that this method computes is a number between 0.0 and 1.0.
+If the language is unambiguously identified by the rule engine, the value
+1.0 will always be returned. If the given language is not supported by
+this detector instance, the value 0.0 will always be returned. Otherwise,
+a value between 0.01 and 0.99 will be returned.
+
 ### 9.4 Eager loading versus lazy loading
 
 By default, *Lingua* uses lazy-loading to load only those language models on demand which are