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mollusque commented on the word nominal number
A nominal number (sometimes called a categorical number) is a number you use for identification only. It doesn't matter what the value of the number is.
--Barry Schoenborn and Bradley Simkins, 2010, Technical Math For Dummies, p. 39
August 15, 2010