This reminds me of an assessment at a private school that my son attended a few months ago. The teacher asked him to write his numbers up to 10. My son said he thought that was boring and he'd rather write a really big number, like googolplex. When the teacher admitted he didn't know what a googolplex was, my son said, "You are a teacher, aren't you? What kind of school is this, where the teachers don't even know about googoplexes?" He wasn't admitted. Sigh.