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The number that made counting on fingers officially embarrassing.
means The cardinal number equal to ten times ten — 100.
from From Old English 'hund,' reinforced by '-red' (meaning 'reckoning' or 'number'), tracing back to a Proto-Germanic root shared with words across Germanic languages. Oddly, in Old Norse and some older Germanic reckonings, a 'hundred' could sometimes mean 120 — a 'long hundred' counted in dozens rather than tens, a quirky reminder that before decimal counting ruled everything, communities carved up numbers to fit their own tools and trades.
- origin
- old norse hundrath actually meant 120
- percent
- per centum, latin for by the hundred
- century
- shares its root with hundred, same idea
- slang
- keep it a hundred means total honesty