Thursday, January 26, 2012

One century.

I think the numer 100 is still one of the cooler numbers around.  I actually remember as a young child that it seemed like a milestone for one's counting capabilities.  It seemed so big and cool... the first triple-digit number... the first one with two 0s, too.(whoah... 100 and too are quite visibly similar... never noticed that before)  100 also had it's own name: Century.  And even though the intricacies of the latin naming conventions took years to unfold many of their delicious mysteries unto my mind I have always been happy with Century. A cent is 1/100th part of a dollar, also likely a short form of percent. A centurion was the leader of 100 men. It gains its bigness in the typical reference to 100 years of time.  Which is a ripe old age that I myself would like to see in the flesh(robot, cryo-freezing, seance-induced, twinkie-saturation excluded.)  I would not mind even being named 100.  Sure, why not?  It is certainly easy to remember and spell!

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