Value and representation

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There is a difference between a value and a representation of a value.

The value is an abstract idea. A representation is a way to make the value (in reality) concrete.

Plato in his philosophy takes the position that the abstract is more "real" than the concrete.

An abstract value has many possible concrete representations.

There is one abstract notion of "five". There are many representations and meanings related to "five".

five (English)
fünf (German)
fif (Old English)
fyue (Middle English)
fiue (Middle English)
fife (radio communications term to avoid confusion with word "fire")
cinco (Spanish, as in "Cinco de Mayo", the 5th of May)
quinque (Latin as in "quintuplets")
пять (Russian as "pyat")
πεντε (Greek as "pende", as in "pentagon" with five sides)
पंज (Hindi as "panj", related to "punch" as in the drink with five ingredients)
5 (Arabic numeral)
5th (ordinal number)
V (Roman numeral, upper case)
v (Roman numeral, lower case)
ε (Greek epsilon, historical five in gematria)
ה (Hebrew heh, historical five in gematria)
0101b (binary)
05d (decimal)
05o (octal)
05h (hexadecimal)
✋ (Unicode U+270B, #9995, raised hand)
tally marks (not part of common Unicode range)
2+3 (mathematical expression, infinite number of such)