Square One TV/Episode 159

Episode 159
Season 1, Episode 59
Airdate	April 16, 1987
Production Number	59
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 159 is the fifty-ninth episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the fifty-ninth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Kevin McCarthy (Norman Mailbag)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Duelist Lead-In

• The Duelists

Using a grid of the area, 2 knights try to figure out all the possible meeting points half-way between their 2 castles in order to avoid having to go out and fight the duel.

• Phoner: Consecutive Odd Numbers

Arthur has a 1-sided conversation in which he discovers that if he begins with 1, the sum of consecutive odd numbers will always equal a square number.

• Exclusive Music Video: "Shape Up" (The Mickins)

• But Who's Counting? Logo (EKA #106)

• But Who's Counting?: Birds vs. Beaverbooks

Contestants arrange 6 randomly chosen digits to create a 3 digit plus 3 digit addition problem. The largest sum wins. Contestants must apply some knowledge of place value and probability to play.

• Pop Up Book

As a result of some computer graphics wizardry, a 3-dimensional tourist discovers that he is touring a 2-dimensional city in a pop-up book.

• Mathnet: The Problem of the Dirty Money - Part 4 (EKA #124)

The Mathnetters do an analysis of the soil from the Abandoned Gravel Pits and that of Mailbag's back yard. They also determine that the footprints at the Pits and in Mailbag's garden are the same.

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