On 21 Dec 2018, at 5:54pm, James K. Lowden <[email protected]> wrote:

> If the assigning body didn't intend the "number" as a quantity, it's
> not.  Treating it as such will often come to tears. 

I've seen this argument phrased as "Are you going to do maths on it ?  If not, 
don't store it as a number.".

And yes, there are things called "number" which turn out to have hyphens and 
letters in.  It's a colloquialism.  (Apologies to readers who don't have 
English as their first language.)

Simon.
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