It’s a tortured metaphor for benefit or value or bounty. So, to work with the cardiologist, she publicly issues a bounty (numerator) in COIN and I privately estimate the effort denominator. Triage the table of bounties by this fraction.

I guess it could also be used to communicate that some problems are too difficult for modest resources, if the reward exceeds 255.

Anyway, the only thing worth spending it on is resource upgrades, right?