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EXPLICIT FRAME PATTERN LANGUAGE v1.0

Published: 2026-07-04

Core Principle > No naked numbers. Every quantitative representation shall carry the interpretive frame needed to disambiguate its meaning — radix, metric, unit, scale type, and cyclic grounding. --- ## The Nine Patterns ### Pattern 1: RADIX TAG Problem: A numeral string like 10 has no intrinsic radix. It means ten in decimal, two in binary, eight in octal, sixteen in hex. Solution: Every positional numeral shall carry a radix tag as an inseparable part of its representation