hundred million

hundred million

1. The number 100,000,000.
   • 1948 May 16, “Fastest Shutter; Hundred Million Film Exposures A Second Now Possible”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 November 2025:

     Dr. A[braham] M. Zarem has devised the fastest camera shutter on record. It can operate at a rate of a hundred million exposures a second, which is 25,000 times faster than the shutter used on the fastest commercial motion- picture camera.

   • 1982 February, Edward Jay Epstein, “Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?”, in William Whitworth, editor, The Atlantic Monthly‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 September 2012:

     Some hundred million women wear diamonds, while millions of others keep them in safe-deposit boxes or strongboxes as family heirlooms.

   • 2002 August 23, Associated Press, “Evidence Shows Asteroid Hit Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[3], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 July 2025:

     During the first few hundred million years, he [Steven M. Stanley] said, this debris often slammed into the Earth and the other planets.