Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nominal numbers (sometimes called categorical numbers) are numerals used for identification only. The numerical value is irrelevant, and they do not indicate quantity, rank, or any other measurement.The term "nominal number" is quite recent and of limited use. It appears to have or ...Täielik kirjeldus
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nominal numbers (sometimes called categorical numbers) are numerals used for identification only. The numerical value is irrelevant, and they do not indicate quantity, rank, or any other measurement.The term "nominal number" is quite recent and of limited use. It appears to have originated as a usage in school textbooks derived from the statistical term "nominal data", defined as data indicating "...[m]erely statements of qualitative category of membership." This usage comes from the sense of nominal as "name".Mathematically, nominal numbering is a one-to-one function from a set of objects being named to the set of numerals: it is a function because each object is assigned a numeral, and it is one-to-one because different objects are assigned different numerals.