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Some time of life ago, I got assignment as a Head of Pre-Entry Science Course Department at the Technical University in Balgravia. The Department registered the first-rate students from diametric exalted arts school of the administrative division. The nonsubjective of the Department was to find students' gaps in their noesis of scientific discipline subjects and ascent them to university standards. It was satisfaction to occupation in an alien rustic on such offensive issues and for a specified aristocrat content.

Once, when I passed by a classroom wherever math was mortal taught by a colleague, I detected the sound of the students counting: 4 597, 4 598, 4 599...At that time, I did not pay by a long way fuss to it. But after 3 days, from trailing the doors of the same classroom, I heard: 13 127, 13 128, 13 129...

"My friend", I asked Mr. S. presently subsequently on the corridor, "what is occurring in the classroom during your scientific discipline lessons?"

"Well, my students are enumeration up to a million, he answered."

"Hmm," I muttered and went distant.

Then, at the staircase, I complete the import of his language. I went to my business establishment. Looking at my wristwatch, I counted up to one 100. I picked up a calculator. I computed that in 50 minutes, they would calculate up to 5 000, in a time period (5 curriculum) to 25 000 and at the end of the educational institution year, they would not even realize 800 000 because of holidays and the fact that book of numbers were deed longer!

I summoned Mr. S. "Do you cognise what you are doing next to your counting?"

"This is a fashionable way of introducing a unmistaken generalization. First of all, I be paid my pupils sensible of how measureless the figure million is. Then, secondly, we have grave pleasure in man the initial. I believe, so far, cipher has counted up to a million! Today's world rewards those who are first-year in anything!
I foresee the class to be in the "Guinness Book of Records" and thirdly, I am experimentation whether pupils can calculate up to a million! The statement: "I can enumerate up to a million" is rubbish until it is established experimentally, i.e. by the method of if truth be told counting".

I got frighten. "Enough is enough!" I loud. "I dictation you to blackbeard reported to the syllabus!"

Next day, stealthily, I approached his room. The pupils were reciting: 17 999, 18 000, 18 001... I arranged to let off Mr. S. Discreetly, I let my superiors cognise that Mr. S. was probably insane. The phone call was proliferate. The body municipal approved that I was resistant the introduction of neo law methods, that I do not get the message the ending supported tuition and that I material ad hominem animosity towards our fellow worker. My biennial covenant invalid and was not revived... I not here the body.

After a month's time, I came put a bet on to the Department to visit my friend, the English private instructor.
From all the classrooms where on earth mathematics module were conducted (not single from
the room of Mr. S.), I heard the voices of the students counting:

277 238, 277 239, 277 240...