Yes, this is probably misleading and imprecise! But we don’t have a coherent account of what’s going on here.https://twitter.com/bombaybornbum/status/862394132261732353 …
I’m afraid it’s just a draft, currently. The stuff I’ve just tweeted is a summary, though! And do check out Brian Smith’s lecture.
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(Natural) numbers have three uses: cardinal, ordinal, and nominal. Nominal is using a number to identify a concept or thing.
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As developers we make use of numbers in all three ways. User experience is dominated by nominal use, almost to the exclusion of the others.
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