The first time I heard a figure above one thousand was when I entered Winneba Secondary School, to study accounting. My then Accounting Tutor, Mr. J. B. Ninson, who is now the Effutu Municipal Chief Executive, introduced the concept of accounting, and began to throw long figures on the chalk board, with a lot of zeros. I continued to face these figures in the books, but never handled them, for they were, indeed, huge figures, like 756,745,002, 920 (remember at that time we were using the old Ghana Cedis).