d a- Either I hate numbers or I’m waiting until the count is up to my favorite number (4,294,967,297), I’ll let you decide.
Here’s a story about numbers. I had to change a detail but the main point remains the same.
Some one found out the combination to the safe that was in the main office and spread it around yeshiva. The yeshiva had to hire a locksmith (at a cost of a few hundred dollars) to change the combination.
What cost $400 to change, was easily cracked using an innocent hint from the naive locksmith and high school mathematics.
I didn’t share the code with anyone but a few months later, before I graduated, I had to let the Hanhalla know that someone knows the combo. (I just had to do it.)
One of the secular teachers was giving us a final and going on vacation the next day. He told us that if we want our grades we should leave a number after our names and he’ll call the principal, read off the numbers and tell him the grade for each number.
So the teacher calls and reads off the numbers-
16854: 75
13516: 82
25548: 87
36494: 62
42-63-58-84: 98
71516: 91
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