> Size is a unitless dimension. A category of metrics, if you must.
Just make size a category of dimensions and I'd underwrite that. It certainly doesn't refer to a single dimension.
Mathematically valuation would absolutely be a size/magnitude, but we're clearly not speaking in mathematical terms, given how the terminology is being abused. Mathematically plenty of things that are a magnitude/size do not constitute a metric space, and the singular would be wrong anyways.
I'm taking metric to mean "standard of measurement", which is why size is still not a metric. Saying "size is a category of metrics" would be getting close enough I suppose, but really we're talking about the actual dimensions.
Now that we've got that out of the way, I'm still firmly grouping valuation as a measurement of value, and not a measurement of size. I'm also standing by the assertion that not having these two be disjoint sets only leads to confusion and nonsense.
> OP's word of "bigger" can be applied to population, area, weight, importance, memorability, and yes, valuation.
Nice try. They applied it to "company". You can do that, but now we're not talking about a company's value. We have the adjective valuable for that.
Just make size a category of dimensions and I'd underwrite that. It certainly doesn't refer to a single dimension.
Mathematically valuation would absolutely be a size/magnitude, but we're clearly not speaking in mathematical terms, given how the terminology is being abused. Mathematically plenty of things that are a magnitude/size do not constitute a metric space, and the singular would be wrong anyways.
I'm taking metric to mean "standard of measurement", which is why size is still not a metric. Saying "size is a category of metrics" would be getting close enough I suppose, but really we're talking about the actual dimensions.
Now that we've got that out of the way, I'm still firmly grouping valuation as a measurement of value, and not a measurement of size. I'm also standing by the assertion that not having these two be disjoint sets only leads to confusion and nonsense.
> OP's word of "bigger" can be applied to population, area, weight, importance, memorability, and yes, valuation.
Nice try. They applied it to "company". You can do that, but now we're not talking about a company's value. We have the adjective valuable for that.