"Significance of Hundred"

* "Hundred" threw up 137,000,000 pages on google.
* Is the number of continuous years in a century.
* A 100 year old person is known as a centenarian.
* Is the number of runs required for a cricket batsman to score a Century, and considered as a significant milestone.
* The number of subunits into which many of the world's currencies are divided.
* Is the denomination of the U.S. hundred-dollar bill is the largest U.S. bill in print
* The number of the first folder of photos in the DCIM folder created by a brand-new digital camera or after a auto reset
* In Greece, India and Israel, 100 is the police telephone number.
* In Belgium, 100 is the ambulance telephone number.
* In United Kingdom, 100 is the operator telephone number
* The Hundred Years' War was a conflict between France and England, which actually lasted 116 years from 1337 to 1453.
* "The First Hundred Days" is an arbitrary benchmark of a President of the United States' performance at the beginning of his term
* 100 is the HTTP status code indicating that the client should continue with its request
* Historical years: AD 100 or 100 BC.
* 100 degrees Celsius is the boiling temperature of pure water at sea level
* Hundred was an administrative divisor used to indicate an area of a county which contained one hundred families.
* Centum-Satem isogloss refers to the earliest form of the word "hundred" in a language as a rough marker of the language's place in the Indo-European language family.
* "The Hundred Days" was the Waterloo Campaign, the period between Napoleon Bonaparte’s return to Paris (20 March 1815) from his exile on Elba and the restoration of the Bourbon Dynasty under King Louis XVIII (8 July 1815).
* Hundred is a town in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States with a population under 500. It was named for Henry Church and his wife who were centenarians.
* Hundred is colloquilly used in quotations to signify the importance of an object or an event. eg. “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” "I have a hundred reasons to be busy."
* One hundred is the square of 10.
* One hundred is the basis of percentages 100% being a full amount.
* It is the sum of the first nine prime numbers, as well as the sum of two prime numbers (47 + 53), and the sum of the cubes of the first four integers (100 = 13 + 23 + 33 + 43).
* It is divisible by the number of primes below it, 25 in this case.

In Indian Mythology:

* Mahabharata has one hundred thousand verses.

* Karma: At the end of a great war of Mahabharata, queen Gandhari is informed that all her hundred children are dead. She weeps and seeks a reason for this unfair situation, to which a sage replies, “In your last life, you sat on a stone under which there were a hundred turtle eggs. The eggs were crushed. So the mother-turtle cursed you that you too would experience the loss of hundred children.”

* Brahma's one day is equal to 4,320,000,000 years of hindu calender. At the end of his one day when Brahma goes to sleep the world is consumed in fire & destructed. When he wakes up he goes about recreating the world. Brahma has been destined to live a hundred years(his year is equal to his hundred days) or 100x100=100000 Brahma days. At the end of it Brahma himself is consumed by fire and along with him the other GODs, sages and the entire cosmos is annihilated into a comic ball of fire and dissolves into individual components.

* According to myths all Brahma's creations fall under a HUNDRED possible categories. To prove this Brahma cut off a portion of his body and created SATRUPA(a face with 100 beauties), Brahma was so enthralled with this creation that he placed 4 heads all around him to keep looking at her. SATRUPA was so shy that she flew into the skies. So Brahma had one more head installed on the top to gaze at SATRUPA. So goes the story of Brahma's 5 heads(though he is credited with 4 only)

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