Hello to all! This is my 100th post! So, I'm going to do a post about the number one hundred for this one. I'll just be including some interesting facts about the number. So, here goes:
- There are 100 years in a century.
- On the Celsius scale, 100 degrees is the boiling temperature of water.
- The United States Senate has 100 Senators.
- There are 100 yards in an American football field.
- 100 is a perfect square number and its square root is 10.
- 100 is the basis of percentages (“per cent” meaning “per hundred” in Latin), with 100 percent being a full amount.
- There are 100 pennies in one dollar
- "C" is the Roman numeral for 100. "C" comes from the word Latin word centrum.
- A person who lives to be 100 is called a centenarian.
- The sum of the first nine (9) prime numbers is 100.
- The sum of the first 10 odd numbers equals 100.
- There are 100 letter tiles in a Scrabble game.
- If you had $100 billion dollars, you could spend $3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years.
- There are 100 sweat glands in one (1) square inch of skin.
- 100 pennies weigh 250 grams, which is a little over half a pound.
- A Googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes!
Hope you enjoyed reading those. I know some of those are probably pretty well known but I hope you learned something new today. 😊
~Puck
(List gotten from Baylor University Website.)
