Score to Hundred (score to 100)

1 score equals 0.2 hundred exactly.

How to convert score to hundred

To convert score to hundred, multiply the number of score by 0.2. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply hundred by 5.

hundred = score × 0.2

Example: 10 score = 2 hundred.

Large-number names differ around the world: this site uses the short scale (billion = 10⁹) by default, and lists the long-scale billion separately.

About these units

Score (score)

General & non-SITraditional unit (still used in some regions)

Twenty items. Seen in 'threescore years and ten' and 'four score and seven years ago'.

Score is a counting word for twenty, and it likely began as a notch. The Old Norse skor meant a notch or tally cut into a stick, and every twentieth mark was made larger, so the word came to mean twenty itself. English often pairs it with a number, as in threescore or fourscore. People also use scores loosely for a large, unspecified number.

Two famous passages keep the unit visible. In Psalm 90:10 of the King James Bible, the days of our years are threescore years and ten, which is 70, or fourscore, which is 80, if strength allows. And on November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln opened the Gettysburg Address with four score and seven years ago, meaning 87 years, which counts back to 1776 and the Declaration of Independence. A score of years is simply two decades.

1 score = 20 pieces (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Score (number); King James Bible, Psalm 90:10 (BibleHub); Wikipedia: Gettysburg Address

Hundred (100)

General & non-SICurrent unit

One hundred.

The English word hundred descends from Old English hundred and, further back, from a Proto-Germanic compound that joined the old root for 100 with a word meaning count or row. For much of history it did not always mean 100. Old Norse counted large numbers in twelves of tens, and medieval England used a long hundred of 120 beside the short hundred of 100. Around 1300 the Assize of Weights and Measures had both in play: a hundred kippers or a hundred ells of hemp canvas or linen meant 120, while a hundred fresh herring meant 100.

The word also named a historical subdivision of southern English counties, notionally 12,000 acres. Today a hundred is simply ten tens, five score, or a tenth of a thousand, and the SI prefix hecto stands for 10². The long hundred faded as Arabic numerals, which rely on base 10, spread from the 14th century onward.

1 hundred = 100 pieces (exactly).

Sources: Wiktionary: hundred; Wikipedia: Long hundred; BIPM SI Brochure, 9th edition (2019)

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