Talk:101 (number)

message: OK since Docu says he isn't going above 100 I'll join in for 101 and up. Professor M. Fiendish, Esq. 05:18, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Docu

message: Does anybody know why 101 is used to indicate that basic information on a topic will be provided? Haven't found anything on that phrase's origin.
:Right, I came here to ask that same question. One would expect 102 or 201 to be the next level up. I asked this at the humanities ref desk. DirkvdM 08:14, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Like DirkvdM I came here for the answer to this question - I thought this page would be 101 101, so to speak.  My theory, awaiting confirmation, is that it comes from the course numbering used in US higher education; the first 1 refers to a 1st year course, and the 01 indicates that it is the first of these, thus the most basic.  Makes sense? Moletrouser (talk) 11:37, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

text: Me too! --Boivie (talk) 19:52, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  101 - the basics 

message: The British always use "and"; one hundred and one; one hundred and twenty. More old fashioned is perhaps things like four and twenty (24) as in the ditty "four and twenty virgins came down from Inverness/ and when they went back there were four and twenty less" (which should of course be four and twenty fewer). Houseman has a poem in A Shropshire Lad which starts "When I was one-and-twenty, I heard a wise man say..." and ends "But I am two-and-twenty, and oh, 'tis true, 'tis true".
I am not sure if it is correct to put North American here. I went out with a Canadian for seven years and I never remember having heard her use it without "and". Now, Canadian speech varies a lot and she grew up as French Canadian, but I think if she dropped the "and" I would have noticed it. And I can't remember any of her sisters doing so either, some of whom grew up in Francophone Canada and some in Anglophone Canada. That may just my not noticing but I would guess it's a US thing not a North American thing.
I can give you the syntax but it's difficult to graph here. "And" should be used (in Br. Eng.) to disambiguate the smaller unit. This is a bit tricky quite to describe. It's redundancy, more for the purpose in speech than in writing, to say "One hundred seven" can be confused with "seven hundred" (100 and 700 written seldom are likely to confuse) so to add "and" separates them to ensure they are not heard wrongly. That is a bad way to put it, I am sure I could think of better, but that's the basic premiss-- a bit of redundancy so it isn't misheard. That's not a conscious thing of course, just it happens to have grown up that way. The French point made earlier is very interesting actually, I'd have to look back pre-1066 to see how they were expressed in ME or OE but I am not sure if that would do much good, would be interesting anyway.
Would those in the US say "six half" or "six and a half"? I thnk the latter. At least the Br. Eng. is consistent, in that sense.
Best wishes SimonTrew (talk) 00:05, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: One foot and a foot. Oh that's two feet.

message: Some has added '101 Holidays' to the list, which I do not think is notable, if for no other reason than it wouldn't be referred to as '101' but is jsut a name which begins with 101. It was given an external link but I have made it a Wiki link. If it is notable someone can create the page, if not then it should be deleted. a_boardley (talk) 10:46, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 101 Holidays

message: I judge from chat and history nobody has bothered with this since 2008. Wow, this short article I was expecting to be about 10 minutes to check cites, how wrong I was.
It has lots of calls that are either irrelevant, wrong, not notable, or redundant. I've listed them in the article text as comments. For example, Miller planes of 101 are bugger all to do with the natural number 101, that's shorthand for a vector 1xa 0xb 1xc. I would argue that if someone is  looking up information about Miller planes they are unlikely to hazard 101 (number) as a guess.
This really needs a big cleanup. I hope I've done more harm than good. It's already essentially a double redirect.
Best wishes SimonTrew (talk) 00:55, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  This needs some serious cleanup 

message: Is it worth noting that various companies (such as Disney) use 101 as a code that something has gone wrong.  In this instance, it is pronounced one-oh-one --TimothyJacobson (talk) 03:22, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disney 

message: Why should this article have no images? I added some relevant images from wikimedia, but DAJF deleted them claiming that images are not helpful. What is the general consensus on images in this article? (14 September 2009)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.49.118.114 (talk) 15:39, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: Can someone expalin the use of "and". I thought it was used mostly in British English but in America people would normally say "one hundred one" instead of "one hundred and one". Now, though, I notice both Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton use the "and" in these numbers, so what's the plot? Is it a regional thing in North America or what? Mister Flash (talk) 19:02, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of "and" (again) 

message: My native language isn't English, but I've seen quite a few uses of 101 in titles when trying to explain something. For example Mac 101 or Blackberry 101. What is meant by that?
--83.119.136.130 (talk) 10:01, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: American universities use a system of course numbers with the first year introductory course usually numbered 101 and this has led to the number becoming synonymous with basic introductions. Timrollpickering (talk) 01:43, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use as update 

message: ...DOES NOT MEAN 101 IN THAI!! It means King and Province in French
* King = Roi
* et = and
* Province = province
ThisguyYEAH (talk) 23:03, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roi Et Province... 

message: The binary value of 101 shows as 101(subscript-2), the ternary value shows as 2(subscript-3), etc. These are wrong, as are the various other values below these.
I looks to me like the html generator, when reading the "101" value, converts it incorrectly.
The same kind of problem is on the "201" page too, and I reported it there too.
I'm using a recent version of Google Chrome.
Dr Smith (talk) 19:15, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  broken values in generated number box 

message: As  more resembles a dictionary entry than an encyclopedic article, as per WP:BOLD and WP:MERGE, I'm merging it into the "In education" section in this article. Indigopari (talk) 19:22, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The merge is complete. Indigopari (talk) 20:32, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging [[101 (slang)]]