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Short Summary Of The Short Story Numberlessoplis By Fernando
There once was this boy (lets just call him Fernando) who owned a thin, blue calculator, of course he didn't know it was a calculator at the time. He lived in a little town called Numberlessoplis, and in this town there was no such thing as numbers, math or even money. It was a peaceful town, not much greed or selfishness because there was no money. There life was almost perfect in Numberlessoplis, except for one little thing. There was only one of everything. One banana, one mayo jar, one tree, one problem, one huge house. But they didn't think that was such a bad thing, because of course they didn't know what they were missing out on. The only thing that there was a lot of, were people. They were discovering new things every day. But that was good because there lives were practically routine. Fernando wanted to do something different with his life, he wanted to rule the world. But all he had in his possession was a thingamabob, because that’s what he called his calculator.
You might be thinking how would Fernando rule the world with just his
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How strange, Fernando thought as he went to go find his parents, everybody is acting like it’s normal. He was still disappointed because he rule the world and he didn't even change it that much. On his way to school though he heard some kids talking about a subject called math. He had never heard of math before. He sat down in his desk as the teacher gave him this sheet with the same symbols as his calculator. He took out his calculator and pressed the symbols that were on the paper. When he finished filling out the paper he gave it to the teacher, he was the only one done. Nobody else had a calculator he realized, they were all suffering over their math. Fernando laughed to himself, he is ruling the world, he is the only one with a calculator. Everybody else had to do their math in their head. And that is how math came to

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