Why is a 100 person choir singing the same song not 100 times louder than one person?

Question

I suspect it’s something to do with sounds waves so have flaired as physics, but not sure?

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Answer 1

Humans perceive the world logarithmically, here’s an example to help you understand:

“Are we being attacked by 1 or 2 lions” is much more important than “Are we being attacked by 101 or 102 lions”

So try to apply that for sound