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A small hundred or short hundred (archaic, see 120 below) 120: A great hundred or long hundred (twelve tens; as opposed to the small hundred, i.e. 100 or ten tens), also called small gross (ten dozens), both archaic; Also sometimes referred to as duodecimal hundred, although that could literally also mean 144, which is twelve squared
Year 100 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 100 for this year has been used since the early medieval period.
hundred times hecatontaplo-hundred-multiple hecatontad-hundred of a kind also abbreviated in hec[aton]tad-hecatosto-hundredth hecatostaio-the hundredth day: shata–
The financial and general news media mostly use m or M, b or B, and t or T as abbreviations for million, billion (10 9) and trillion (10 12), respectively, for large quantities, typically currency [28] and population. [29] The medical and automotive fields in the United States use the abbreviations cc or ccm for cubic centimetres.
The name "googol" was invented by a child (Dr. Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely 1 with one hundred zeroes after it. He was very certain that this number was not infinite, and therefore equally certain that it had to have a name.
Hecto (symbol: h) is a decimal unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of one hundred. It was adopted as a multiplier in 1795, and comes from the Greek ἑκατόν hekatón, meaning "hundred". In 19th century English it was sometimes spelled "hecato", in line with a puristic opinion by Thomas Young.
This is a list of common abbreviations in the English language A. ab ...
A – adele ring or algebraic numbers. a.a.s. – asymptotically almost surely. AC – Axiom of Choice, [1] or set of absolutely continuous functions. a.c. – absolutely continuous.