# value (magnitude)

The number a parameter has at a time.

- Computed level: L7 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: systems

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

**Through:** A parameter can change while its thing persists; fixing it at one time picks out a single number from everything it could be, and that number is what walls, edges and drift are read against.

**Novel properties:**
- a single reading of a changing condition
- comparable against a wall
- the thing drift changes

## Used by
- [brink](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-brink.edge) (L12)
- [chaos](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-chaos.unpredictable-drift) (L12)
- [domino effect](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-domino-effect.stacked) (L14)
- [extreme](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-extreme.position) (L12)
- [ground](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ground.level) (L14)
- [necessity](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-necessity.condition) (L18)
- [overload](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-overload.capacity) (L9)
- [perfectionism](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-perfectionism.zero-width) (L16)
- [poker](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-poker.game) (L17)
- [ripening](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ripening.approaching) (L18)
- [self-esteem](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-esteem.setpoint) (L15)
- [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix) (L9)
- [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end) (L8)
- [waste](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-waste.output) (L12)
- [wealth effect](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wealth-effect.spending) (L18)
- [wishful thinking](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wishful-thinking.substitution) (L15)

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-value.magnitude.json*  
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