20th September 2012

100- everyone on your marks…….

One hundred* is the square of 10

One hundred is the basis of percentages with 100% being a full amount.

It is the sum of the first nine prime numbers thus 100 is a Leyland number.

100 is a Harshad or Niven number.

There are exactly 100 prime numbers whose digits are in strictly ascending order. (e.g. 239, 2357 etc.)

100 is the smallest number whose common logarithm is a prime number.

The atomic number of Fermium is 100.

On the Celsius scale, 100 degrees is the boiling temperature of pure water at sea level

There are 100 blasts of the Shofar heard in the service of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.

The United States Senate has 100 Senators.

Most of the world's currencies are divided into 100 subunits

The U.S. hundred-dollar bill has Benjamin Franklin's portrait; the "Benjamin" is the largest U.S. bill in print.

One hundred is also:

▪                The number of years in a century

▪                The number of tiles in a standard English language Scrabble set.

 

And in financial services regulation 100 is the number of days to go until RDR goes live.

Are you ready? Do you need help?

Ready or not, you will find lot’s of useful information in our Transitions area right now. 

Our Transition microsite has been designed with input from providers, IFAs and various support services to promote an understanding of what you need to do to ensure the ongoing success of your business in light of all the changes RDR presents. This resource will especially assist those who are facing the undoubted challenges that a mid to later working lifestyle change can bring and providing peer support in the process.

The microsite targets IFAs both in transition and those already qualified and RDR ready as we hope that they can share their knowledge and experience and inspire the current wave of IFAs in transition as well as the future generation of IFAs.

 

*sources: Wikipedia

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Comments (1)

derek you are clearly bored with life. You would be much better off studying for a pure mathematics phd at cambridge.

David Beckham is only the fifth England footballer to win 100 caps. The other players who have achieved this status are: Billy Wright (the first player in the world to reach the magic number, at Wembley in April 1959), Sir Bobby Charlton, Bobby Moore and Peter Shilton.

The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 between England and France, therefore not being 100 years but 116. This error was due to the monks, who were the only literates going to sleep at 99 years and only waking up 17 years later.

Hopefully 100 days in the Financial Services context will become 465, if they take any notice of the TSC

callomon1   21/09/2012   10:01

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