# the long tail (excess)

*Ordinarily means:* the many less popular items that together make up a large part of sales

the whole that persists beyond its most frequent parts because the parameter of rarity has no wall that stops the drift of new kinds

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: emergence.lexicon

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [whole](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-whole.complete), [drift](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-drift.aimless), [parameter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-parameter.condition), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [part](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-part.relation), [difference](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-difference.relation), [persist](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-persist.continue)

**Through:** the whole exceeding its parts

**Novel properties:**
- greater than the sum

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-long-tail.excess*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-long-tail.excess.json*  
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