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a hundred laps around the sun, mostly spent forgetting the previous hundred.
means A period of one hundred years, especially one numbered within a calendar era.
from From Latin centuria, a group of a hundred — built on centum, 'hundred,' a deep Indo-European number-word that's a distant cousin of English 'hundred' and Greek 'hekaton.' In Rome a centuria was a military unit of (roughly) a hundred men, led by a centurion; the sense drifted from 'a hundred of anything' to its most famous use, a hundred years.
- cricket too
- In cricket, a century means 100 runs by one batsman
- off by one
- The 21st century began in 2001, not 2000
- roman roots
- Originally a Roman army unit of about 80 soldiers
- plant myth
- The century plant blooms once, then dies after decades
- cycling badge
- Cyclists call a 100-mile ride a century
don bradman's 334 — australian cricketer scored 334 runs in a single innings at headingley in 1930
sachin tendulkar's 100th — indian cricketer reached 100 international centuries across formats in 2012
virat kohli's centuries — indian cricketer holds record with 79 international centuries across all formats as of 2024