# number (quantity)

a mark of many distinct others together in a place

- Computed level: L6 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: everyday  ·  Arena: number

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [difference](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-difference.relation), [distinct](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-distinct.attribute), [others](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-others.distinct-entities), [space](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-space.extent), [marks](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-marks.visual)

**Through:** Differences between distinct others are recognized in space, and their collective presence is visually marked to indicate magnitude.

**Novel properties:**
- collective magnitude
- spatial grouping
- visual count marker

## Examples
- The 2020 U.S. Census counted 331,449,281 residents across 50 states. *(institutions)*
- A DNA sequencer reads 3 billion base pairs to map a human genome. *(biology)*
- The Large Hadron Collider detects up to 40 million particle collisions per second. *(physics)*

## Used by
- [addition](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-addition.mathematical) (L12)
- [amount](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-amount.quantity) (L8)
- [average](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-average.statistical) (L9)
- [even](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-even.numerical) (L7)
- [figure](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-figure.numeric) (L8)
- [june](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-june.month) (L14)
- [quantity](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-quantity.numerical) (L7)
- [rating](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-rating.evaluation) (L9)
- [ratio](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ratio.proportion) (L10)
- [several](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-several.quantity) (L7)
- [six](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-six.cardinal) (L12)
- [statistics](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-statistics.data) (L8)
- [the compression claim](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-compression-claim.assertion) (L12)
- [thirty](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-thirty.numeral) (L12)
- [total](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-total.quantity) (L7)

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