Was this kid serious?

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<p>Take a look at this thread… this kid actually was looking for a way to print all the integers from 1 to Avogadro’s number (6.022 * 10^23), because his physics teacher promised him an ‘A’ if he did it.</p>

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<p>Well, perhaps his physics teacher wanted him to go home and think about how big the number actually was…</p>

<p>I used to make my students do a lab counting grains of sand (really) to determine the volume of a mole of sand. Most kids thought the volume would be about the size of a VW before they started counting and measuring. Afterwards…</p>