100,000!

This blog recently reached 100,000 views. The number 100,000 is significant in many ways.

• In South Asia, one hundred thousand is one lakh and is expressed numerically as 1,00,000.
• Cead Mile Failte is an Irish greeting meaning 100,000 welcomes.
• 100,000 meters is the altitude considered where space flight begins.
• 104,723 and 104,729 are the 9999th and 10,000th prime numbers (by the prime number theorem, the frequency of prime numbers decreases as numbers increase - it makes it easy to remember that the frequency is 1/10 at 100,000).
• In the Netherlands, 100,000 is informally called a ton.
• More interesting facts about 100,000 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100,000