It is variously pronounced "one hundred and one" / "a hundred and one", "one hundred one" / "a hundred one", and "one oh one". As an ordinal number, 101st (one hundred [and] first), rather than 101th, is the correct form.
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the only existing prime with alternating 1s and 0s in decimal and the largest known prime of the form .[3]
the number of compositions of 12 into distinct parts.[4]
the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of three distinct nonzero squares in more than two ways: , or (see image).[5][6]
Given 101, the Mertens function returns 0.[7] It is the second prime to have this property after 2.[8]
For a 3-digit number in decimal, this number has a relatively simple divisibility test. The candidate number is split into groups of four, starting with the rightmost four, and added up to produce a 4-digit number. If this 4-digit number is of the form (where a and b are integers from 0 to 9), such as 3232 or 9797, or of the form , such as 707 and 808, then the number is divisible by 101.[9]
In mineralogy, a Miller index of 101 is a crystal face that crosses the horizontal axis (a) and 3D vertical axis (c) but does not cross the 2D vertical axis (b).
In astronomy it is the Messier designation given to the Pinwheel Galaxy in Ursa Major.
In booksedit
According to Books in Print, more books are now published with a title that begins with '101' than '100'. They usually describe or discuss a list of items, such as 101 Ways to... or 101 Questions and Answers About... . This marketing tool is used to imply that the customer is given a little extra information beyond books that include only 100 items. Some books have taken this marketing scheme even further with titles that begin with '102', '103', or '1001'. The number is used in this context as a slang term when referring to "a 101 document" what is usually referred to as a statistical survey or overview of some topic.
In American university course numbering systems, the number 101 is often used for an introductory course at a beginner's level in a department's subject area.[11][12][13] This common numbering system was designed to make transfer between colleges easier. It can also indicate a course for students not intending to major in the subject; e.g. a student intending to major in English would take English 111 not English 101.
In theory, any numbered course in one academic institution should bring a student to the same standard as a similarly numbered course at other institutions.[12] One of earliest such usages, perhaps the first, was by the University of Buffalo in 1929.[12][13]
Based on this usage, the term "101" (pronounced ONE-oh-ONE) has gained a slang sense referring to basic knowledge of a topic or a collection of introductory materials to a topic, as in the sentence, "Boiling potatoes is Cooking 101".[13] The Oxford English Dictionary records the usage of "101" in this slang sense from 1986.[13]
101 is the main Police Emergency Number in Belgium.
101 is the Single Non-Emergency Number (SNEN) in some parts of the UK, a telephone number used to call emergency services that are urgent but not emergencies. 101 is now available across all areas of England and Wales.[14][15]
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