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Roman fathers were wont to name their fifth sons Quintus, for some reason no-one has been able to figure out. Discuss all normal towers of the symmetric group on five letters, and thus show that fathers of five or more sons were not in general solvent

>be 1st grade
>teacher calls kids to sit on the carpet around her
>pulls out different shapes (cubes, cones, cylinders, spheres)
>asks the room whether or not the shapes will roll
>sphere, everyone answers yes
>cube, everyone answers no
>cylinder, everyone answers yes
>cone, everyone except me answers no
>everyone looks at me after I said yes like I just killed their moms, and yell no
>teacher says i'm right and shows the class the cone does roll
>everyone quickly forgets what happened
but I remember

Yes, I do. *emerging from door* Free mathematics for all. This is where young potentials train to become Ultimate Wizards!