# thousand (numerical)

ten groups of hundred

- Computed level: L9 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: numbers  ·  Arena: thousand

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [ten](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ten.numeric), [hundred](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hundred.quantity), [groups](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-groups.collection)

**Through:** ten groups of hundred together are a quantity

**Novel properties:**
- multiplicative scaling
- three-digit magnitude
- intermediate scale grouping

## Examples
- The International Space Station maintains 28 computer racks, each with thousands of thermal sensors. *(engineering)*
- The Library of Congress catalog holds over a thousand distinct editions of Leaves of Grass. *(institutions)*
- A single gram of soil contains a thousand microbial species, per metagenomic studies in Amazon basin samples. *(biology)*

## Used by
- [miles](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-miles.measurement) (L16)

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