# figure (numeric)

a number that is a quantity

- Computed level: L8 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain:   ·  Arena: 

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [number](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-number.quantity), [quantity](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-quantity.numerical)

**Through:** the number and the idea of quantity combine to create a figure

**Novel properties:**
- symbolic amount
- abstract numeral

## Examples
- The US Census recorded 331,449,281 residents in 2020, a figure used for apportioning congressional seats. *(institutions)*
- The Higgs boson has a mass figure of 125.1 GeV/c², measured at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012. *(physics)*
- Bitcoin's maximum supply is hardcoded as a figure of 21 million coins in its protocol. *(computing)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-figure.numeric*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-figure.numeric.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*