thousand · numerical
Ask PrometheusThousand (noun) means: ten groups of hundred. It emerges from ten, hundred, groups: ten groups of hundred together are a quantity. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 9, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
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
Emergence
through: ten groups of hundred together are a quantity
- multiplicative scaling
- three-digit magnitude
- intermediate scale grouping
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (53 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
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Relations
| is-a | quantity.numerical | is-a |
| contrasts-with | hundred.quantity | contrasts-with |