integer
any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero
Generated draft, first pass
This model was drafted by rule from what the registry knows about the thing. It proposes which bundles a real model will need and which questions research must answer. It is not researched and no sentence in it is sourced.
Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched.
Generator: vr.draft.v3
Purpose and description
Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a integer, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.
any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero
It can be observed and measured.
Distinguishing features
Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: prime factor, whole number, divisor, factor, equivalent-binary-digit factor, common divisor, common factor, common measure, greatest common divisor, greatest common factor, highest common factor, common multiple.
33 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.
Physical character
Made of: an abstraction with no physical instance.
Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.
How it is recognised
Nothing to see: a unit is a convention. What is seen is an instrument reading in it.
Related models
covers - Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.
33 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.
Analytical facets
- substance
- abstract
- origin
- conceptual
- agency
- inert
- mobility
- not-applicable
- scale
- not-applicable
- affordances
- observable
Also called
+31
Where this came from
oewn:2024 · CC BY 4.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 10 findings · 28 questions.
Identity, naming and classification How an agent tells one integer from another, and a integer from things that resemble it.
Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.
Names and identifiers
The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.
Preferred name, aliases and local names
Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.
- What identifies and describes the name of a integer, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the name of a integer, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the name of a integer is known, and what must it refuse? action
Stable identifiers and external keys
Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.
- What identifies and describes an identifier for a integer, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a integer, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a integer is known, and what must it refuse? action
Classification and granularity
Where a integer sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.
Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds
The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.
- What identifies and describes the kind of a integer, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the kind of a integer, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a integer is known, and what must it refuse? action
Distinguishing features
What separates a integer from the things most often confused with it.
- What identifies and describes what distinguishes a integer, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a integer, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a integer is known, and what must it refuse? action
State and lifecycle The states a integer passes through and the events that move it between them.
Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.
Lifecycle stages
From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.
Stages and transitions
The stages worth naming and what moves a integer between them.
- What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a integer, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a integer, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a integer is known, and what must it refuse? action
Observations and current status
What is observed about a integer, how often and by whom.
Observation record
How an observation of a integer is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.
- What identifies and describes an observation of a integer, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an observation of a integer, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a integer is known, and what must it refuse? action
Definition, dimension and realisation What integer is defined as and how it is realised in practice.
A unit is not the quantity it measures, and its definition has a history that older data still depends on.
Definition and dimension
The defining relation and the quantity it measures.
Definition, body and date
What defines it now, and what defined it before.
- How is integer defined, by which body, and since when? definition
- What was the previous definition, and what data still depends on it? provenance
Conversion and compatibility
Relations to other units, exact or approximate.
Conversions and their exactness
Factors, and whether each is exact by definition.
- What conversions relate integer to other units, and which are exact by definition? measurement
- Where does rounding a conversion change a decision, and how should that be recorded? action
Provenance, evidence and time Where every claim about a integer came from and when it held.
A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.
Source and authority
Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.
Claim provenance and confidence
The authority behind each claim about a integer and how confident it is.
- What identifies and describes a claim about a integer, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about a claim about a integer, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a integer is known, and what must it refuse? action
Time, versions and supersession
When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.
Validity period and supersession
How an old claim about a integer is retired without being erased.
- What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a integer, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a integer, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a integer is known, and what must it refuse? action
What the second pass must settle
- Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?
- What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?
- Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a integer, and on what evidence are they told apart?