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The long hundred, also known as the great hundred or twelfty, [1] is the number 120 (in base-10 Hindu-Arabic numerals) that was referred to as hund, hund-teontig, hundrað, hundrath, or hundred in Germanic languages prior to the 15th century, and is now known as one hundred and twenty, or six score.
Presumably from the practice, in counting sheep or large herds of cattle, of counting orally from one to twenty, and making a score or notch on a stick, before proceeding to count the next twenty. [3] [4] A distance of twenty yards in ancient archery and gunnery. [5] Threescore: 60 Three score (3x20) Large: 1,000 Slang for one thousand Myriad ...
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
The duodecimal system, also known as base twelve or dozenal, is a positional numeral system using twelve as its base.In duodecimal, the number twelve is denoted "10", meaning 1 twelve and 0 units; in the decimal system, this number is instead written as "12" meaning 1 ten and 2 units, and the string "10" means ten.
In this notation, powers of ten are expressed as 10 with a numeric superscript, e.g. "The X-ray emission of the radio galaxy is 1.3 × 10 45 joules." When a number such as 10 45 needs to be referred to in words, it is simply read out as "ten to the forty-fifth" or "ten to the forty-five". This is easier to say and less ambiguous than ...
120 (one hundred [and] twenty) is the natural number following 119 and preceding 121. In the Germanic languages , the number 120 was also formerly known as "one hundred". This "hundred" of six score is now obsolete but is described as the long hundred or great hundred in historical contexts.
In a vigesimal place system, twenty individual numerals (or digit symbols) are used, ten more than in the decimal system. One modern method of finding the extra needed symbols is to write ten as the letter A, or A 20, where the 20 means base 20, to write nineteen as J 20, and the numbers between with the corresponding letters of the alphabet.
("ten and three twenty") saith deg: 71 un ar ddeg a thrigain ("one on ten and three twenty") saith deg un: 80 pedwar ugain ("four twenty") wyth deg: 81 pedwar ugain ac un: wyth deg un: 90 deg a phedwar ugain ("ten and four twenty") naw deg: 91 un ar ddeg a phedwar ugain ("one on ten and four twenty") naw deg un: 100 can(t) 200 dau gant: 300 tri ...