six

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Captain speaking. In about six minutes we shall be landing at ..."

"Six?! Oh no, six!...", she reacted in horror to the Captain's message.

She covered her ears with her hands in a state of nervous breakdown. Of all the digits on earth, six was the one she hated most. It brought her those horrible memories of the question she posed herself at the Compostela Math examination.

One of the most interesting techniques developed at Compostela to pass troubled Math students in exams, which deserved prompt EU approval, was to invite students to ask themselves questions and then require them to supply the answers. This technique did fail miserably with Cristina.