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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_hundred

In older varieties of English and other Germanic languages, "hundred" meant the number we now write as 120. 100 was tenty, and 110 was eleventy

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

And of course, the Professor would know this. It's why he used it.