What’s Up With the Number 100?

The number 100 is embedded in many cultures and often signifies fulfillment. It really does seem to be a magical number.
What’s Up With the Number 100?
To Pythagoras, 100 was a "divinely divine" number. In "The School of Athens" by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Pythagoras is depicted second from bottom left, writing detailed script into a bound book with a feather quill. Public Domain
James Sale
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Albert Einstein once observed: “I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”

What is it about the number 100 that so resonates with people? Einstein was a great scientist, not somebody one might casually accuse of superstition or even sloppy thinking. Nevertheless, he chose 100. Why not 98 or 47? And it’s not just the scientists, is it?

James Sale
James Sale
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James Sale has had over 50 books published, most recently, “Mapping Motivation for Top Performing Teams” (Routledge, 2021). He has been nominated for the 2022 poetry Pushcart Prize, and won first prize in The Society of Classical Poets 2017 annual competition, performing in New York in 2019. His most recent poetry collection is “StairWell.” For more information about the author, and about his Dante project, visit EnglishCantos.home.blog