The words flashed red across every terminal. The factory was locked down. No numbers in, no numbers out. The kids on the other side of the screen stared at a gray box that said “Game access restricted.”
And every time a kid solved 9 × 4 correctly, Nubby winked from the screen, tossed a pancake-pi into the air, and said: nubbys number factory unblocked
“What… is this?” Proxy stammered.