Analog plus linear gives analinear number. It is not just linear. It combines the chunky lumps of binary sums with the flowing proportions of analog ratios to birth a transcendent new third form. Some call it nonlinear, but Stanislaw Ulam has pointed out this is a rather silly term, since most of life's problems are nonlinear. Therefore, I prefer to use the term analinear, since it uses both number modes to denote a synergistic third state.
Binary number seeks a goal, a solution, the summation of a quantity of units.
But analog number does not emphasize a solution, a goal, a final lump sum. Instead, it discusses the quality of relationships along the way. It brings up all kinds of resonant associations that open the doors to further process rather than closing them down into the sum of a final answer. That's the trouble with analogs, from a traditional point of view. Analogs network rather than end-stop.