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the thing everyone counts until they realize they should've been weighing instead.
means the amount or number of something — how much there is, measured or counted.
from From Latin quantitas, "how much, greatness, amount," built on the question-word quantus, "how great, how much." It reached English through Old French quantite. That same Latin quantus quietly underwrites a whole family of measuring words — think of "quantum," literally "how much" frozen into a noun.
- physics term
- any property you can put a number on
- latin root
- quantus, meaning how great or how much
- vs quality
- endless debate over which actually matters
- grammar
- words like many, few, several measure it
- economics
- demand curves live and die by it
for instance
great pyramid of giza — 2.3 million stone blocks, each weighing 2.5 tons on average
amazon rainforest — 390 billion individual trees across 5.5 million square kilometers
observable universe stars — estimated 24 septillion stars, or 10^24 in number