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Square One TV/Episode 133

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Episode 133
Season 1, Episode 33
Airdate March 11, 1987
Production Number 33
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 134
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Episode 133 is the thirty-third episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the thirty-third episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Madge Sinclair (Amelia Airliver), Harry Blackstone (Himself)

Co-Starring:

Contents

Segments

  • Phoner: Fibonacci Sequence

Arthur has a 1-sided telephone conversation where he writes down the Fibonacci Sequence -- a series of numbers beginning with 1 whose next term is generated by adding the 2 terms previous.


  • Backstage with Blackstone: Lightening Calculator

Blackstone has the spectator create a Fibonacci series of 10 numbers where each term is the sum of the 2 previous. He can calculate the sum of the 10 because it equals the 7th term multiplied by 11.


  • Lightening Calculator Outro


  • Mathman: Percentages More Than 1/2

Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat only percentages that are less than 1/2.


  • King's Stooges

The Stooges must arrange tables of 4 for 20 people. They can't use 5 separate tables, and they realize that they will need more than the 5 tables if they are to have any sort of a line arrangement.


  • Person on the Street: Tessellations

The Person on the Street Interviewer asks several people if they can define what tessellations are.


  • Exclusive Music Video: "Tessellations" (Undertoe) (EKA #108)

A boppy beach tune illustrates the concept of tessellation as surfers cover their boards and the beach with repeating geometric shapes.


  • Tessellation

In this computer graphic animation, sneakers and TV sets tessellate across the screen.


  • Mathnet: The Problem of the Trojan Hamburger - Part 3

Continuing to recover the Diamond, the Mathnetters calculate how much a carat weighs. They discover a piece of balloon canvas on the scene and discuss how far a helium balloon could travel.


  • Next time...

Notes

Trivia

The Show

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