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by goodmachine 947 days ago
120 - or twelfty to friends - is a delight.

"The long hundred, also known as the great hundred or twelfty,[is the number 120 (in base-10 Hindu-Arabic numerals) that was referred to as hund, hund-teontig, hundraư, hundrath, or hundred in Germanic languages prior to the 15th century, and is now known as one hundred twenty, or six score."

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

"120 is highly composite, superior highly composite, superabundant,[3] and colossally abundant. With sixteen divisors, 120 is the smallest number to have that many divisors..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120_(number)