I was mystified by the parenthetical in one of the answers: (Please note that "hundred" once meant 120.) Seemed unlikely, apparently the ground truth has moved

I was mystified by the parenthetical in one of the answers: (Please note that "hundred" once meant 120.) Seemed unlikely, apparently the ground truth has moved more through the ages than I expected. Lo, the "long hundred": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_hundred https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_hundred.