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Did anyone else try to square 156 within 60 seconds after reading that line?
Actually, I didn't, and then Omega appeared and gave me $100.
Nope, for the same reason that when told to not think about a blue elephant playing the trombone, I immediately start imagining an orange rhinoceros riding a tiny bicycle and generally manage to not think of the forbidden thing.
Refraining from multiplying large numbers is somewhat easier.
No. That part of my brains which used to square even bigger numbers has became unemployed around 1980. I guess it has a new job now and the old skill has been forgotten.