What does "hundred to no" mean in this paragraph? [closed]

ambiguity

Solution 1:

A quick online search for any of the phrases in this paragraph indicates that the number "110" has been misinterpreted by optical character recognition as "no".

Proof?

  • The book is quoted elsewhere with the phrase reading "If the adoption of ploughing increased a village’s population from a hundred to 110, which ten people..."

  • On this page, where the error appears, a user comments, "seems that 110 was numerised [sic] as 'no'".

  • The context itself indicates an increase from 100 to 110, as the rest of the sentence addresses feeding the additional 10 people.

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