Your post also brings up an old, almost-forgotten memory. When I was a sophomore in high school, taking Algebra II, I used to have a kind of "contest" with myself, to see how many times I could O in class, just by thinking about it.
And, no, I was absolutely not "hot for teacher," who was a middle-aged, chubby former nun, who wore a wedding ring to remind herself she was still married to Christ.
Maybe, if I'd paid a little more attention to the binomial theorem, I would have gotten a better grade. Oh well. Guess you can't have everything.
