Sign, Repeated
The times sign is ×, and it is a different character from the letter x. This page has it to copy, the look-alikes people grab by mistake, and the word sign repeated 100 times.
Repeat it 100, 1000 or 10,000 times
100 copies — 499 characters.
× and the marks that resemble it
| Mark | Name | Code point |
|---|---|---|
| × | Multiplication sign | U+00D7 |
| x | Latin small letter x | U+0078 |
| ✕ | Multiplication x | U+2715 |
| ✖ | Heavy multiplication x | U+2716 |
Only the first is the arithmetic sign. The others are a letter and two dingbats drawn to look like it. Software does not care that they resemble each other: a search for one will not find the rest, and a spreadsheet formula rejects all four in favor of an asterisk.
Where each one belongs
Use × in plain writing and schoolwork, the way it is written in 100 × 12 = 1200 on the 100 times 12 page. Use the letter x only when you cannot enter the real sign. The two heavier marks are close buttons and ballot crosses, not math.
How to type × from a keyboard, rather than copying it, is covered on the times symbol page.
The word, repeated
The word is four letters, five with its joining space. A hundred copies is 499 characters, one under 100 × 5; a thousand is 4,999 and ten thousand is 49,999. Exactly 32 copies fill a 160-character text segment, and 400 copies fill a 2,000-character Discord message with one character to spare.