If there's some other meaning that is separate from maths, then I don't know it, but the maths answers is; if you add each digit of a number together (in 125 you would do 1+2+5)then you have the sum of its parts
Close. "The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
If I am twenty-five, does that mean I have twenty-five parts?
Shouldn't be...
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" is a quote that can be best attributed to gestalt psychology.
If there's some other meaning that is separate from maths, then I don't know it, but the maths answers is; if you add each digit of a number together (in 125 you would do 1+2+5)then you have the sum of its parts
This concept is known as synergy, where the combined effect of the parts working together is greater than the sum of their individual effects.
It is a saying to describe synergy. Mathematically, though, the whole is equal to the sum of the parts - not more nor less.
Synergy.
synergy.
Synergy.
emergent properties
Synergy, possibly.