How do I specify exact corners with the rectangular selection tool?

Suppose I have an image 2000 pixels wide by 1000 pixels high. Pixel (0,0) is at the top left as you view the image. Using the rectangular selection tool, how can I specify an exact area to select? Say, for example, I want to select the area defined by (0,0), (100,0), (100,100) & (0,100), how would I do this?
I'm using Photoshop CS6 on a Mac with OSX 10.8.3.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin H.

Mylenium,
33,406 posts! That's amazing. Thanks for your technique for specifying an exact selection size. I tried it out and it works, but is there a way to get the marquee to snap to the guides, as opposed to snapping to pixels. I can't quite get the marquee to fall exactly where I place the guides, at least not easily.
Here's a method I've come up with since posting my question. (I guess I should have tried harder to figure this out before asking the question.)
Figure out beforehand where you want the corners of the selection marquee to be.
Activate the rulers: View>Rulers or (Cmd-R.)
Set rulers to pixels: Photoshop>Preferences>Units&Rulers>Rulers>Pixels
Select the rectangular selection tool.
In the menu bar for the selection tool choose Style>Fixed Size. Then in the dimension boxes to the right of the Style button, type in the width and height you want for your selection, e.g. 200 by 100 pixels.
Zoom in on where you want the top left pixel of your selection to be. Zoom in enough to clearly see the pixel.
With the selection tool active, click-and-release on the pixel you have zoomed in on.
Go back to normal view (Cmd-0) and you should see your entire selection.
This answers my own question, and with your method I now have two ways to do this.
Thanks,
Kevin H.

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