Population of Egypt

So, today we are working on our country reports and I get to Seth's, who is doing Egypt, and he has listed for the population:
"First there were 76 people, then there were 117, and now there are 421."

I am thinking to myself....hmmm...I wonder where he came up with this. Was he looking under ancient civilizations or something???

Then I say, hey Seth, let's look in your book to make sure this is accuarte. We turn to the quick facts page and sure enough...the population of Egypt is 76,117,421. I almost cried laughing! He thought he was pretty funny too. But logically, he had remembered learning that commas are used in a list, so the numbers must have been listed in the order of population changes!

**Note: He had also listed "I Rock" as a neighboring country.**