Square One TV/Episode 118

Episode 118
Season 1, Episode 18
Airdate	February 18, 1987
Production Number	18
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 118 is the eighteenth episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the eighteenth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Tempestt Bledsoe (Herself)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Exclusive Music Video: "Perfect Squares" (The Square Brothers)

A blues band sings about square numbers and graphically suggests their connection to geometry.

• Museum - Part 1

A painter sees a square array of dots and paints numerals that are square numbers - 1, 4, 9 and 16.

• Trojan Pie

In order to sneak behind Trojan walls, a wily Greek builds the Trojan pie - a triangular wedge designed for 36 soldiers, a triangular number.

• Museum - Part 2

A painter sees a triangular array of dots and paints numerals that are triangular numbers - 1, 3, 6, and 10.

• Groaning Wall

Tempestt Bledsoe, one of the "Cosby" kids, asks the cast mathmematical riddles - all of which have a mathematical theme.

• Museum - Part 3

A museum visitor returns to the painter and tells him that he understands his paintings now - he has been depicting square and triangular numbers.

• Newsroom Interrupt (Square Number Def.)

• But Who's Multiplying?

2 contestants attempt to cover 3 numbers in a row by selecting factors of these numbers from the Factor Board - and calling out the resultant product.

• Mathnet: The Trail of George Frankly - Part 3

The Mathnetters search a database for all the people George has arrested. They cannot find 2 who broke into a bank's computer system and manipulated the decimal points of their account balances.

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