/**
 * A rejected value, said in a way that cannot read as an accepted one.
 *
 * Layer 1. Imports nothing.
 *
 * Every numeric guard in this package printed the offending value with `${value}`, which is right
 * for a number and wrong for everything else. `Number.isSafeInteger('0')` is false, so the string
 * `'0'` was rejected and then reported as "must be a whole number, received 0" — a sentence whose
 * rule the printed value satisfies. A reader who trusts the message looks past the argument.
 *
 * A BigInt is the case that costs the most. Every instant and every span edfcore hands out is
 * ticks, so passing one back where a number belongs is a mistake the API's own shape invites, and
 * `received 10000000` reads as a plausible value rather than as one out by ten million.
 *
 * Numbers keep their bare spelling, so `NaN`, `Infinity` and a real out-of-range integer say
 * exactly what they said before. This helper only exists for the values that are not numbers at
 * all (0.6.94).
 */
/** The value as a phrase that fits after "received" or "was given". Never a value's contents. */
export declare function describeValue(value: unknown): string;
/**
 * A record range as written, with each field named as itself.
 *
 * Three modules each carried their own copy of `{ start: ${range.start}, count: ${range.count} }`,
 * and all three interpolated the value raw. A string interpolates as its digits, so the
 * `{ start: '0', count: '1' }` a JSON config or a URL query produces was refused with "records
 * { start: 0, count: 1 } is not inside the 4 data records this file contains" — a range that is
 * plainly inside it — and then told to clamp the range against `header.recordCount`, which for
 * those values is nothing a caller can act on.
 *
 * One home rather than three, for the reason 0.6.121 gives for `isByteArray`: two copies of a
 * rule have to be kept in agreement, and one does not.
 */
export declare function describeRecordRange(range: {
    readonly start?: unknown;
    readonly count?: unknown;
} | null | undefined): string;
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