On 20 Mar 2015, at 17:03, mike thompson wrote:
The only thing about ‘numeric’ is that it is not very specific.
Numeric just means number — every metric is a number so its really
not adding anything. Even availability data is numeric.
on top it is "just double" and not a more specific format.
I often think that if we know that the input is an integer
format, we should process it as such.
But that is a different can of worms :)