Orders of Magnitude (numbers) - 102

102

(100; hundred)

ISO: hecto- (h)

  • Demography: The population of Nassau Island, part of the Cook Islands, is around 100.
  • European history: Groupings of 100 homesteads was a common administrative unit in Northern Europe and Great Britain, see Hundred (county subdivision)
  • Computing: There are 128 characters in the ASCII character set.
  • Phonology: The Taa language is estimated to have between 130 and 164 distinct phonemes
  • Political Science: There were 193 member states of the United Nations as of 2011.


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