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Episode 165
Season 1, Episode 65
Airdate April 24, 1987
Production Number 65
Written by head writer
Jim Thurman
writers
Jim Thurman, David D. Connell, Harry Crossfield, C.C. Berg, Michael Winship, Douglas Anderson, Ellen Fogle, David Yazbek, Bob Brush, Jack Kenny
Directed by Dan F. Smith
Mathnet director
Charles S. Dubin
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Episode 165 is the sixty-fifth episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the sixty-fifth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Devon Ericson (Maureen O'Reilly), Adam Carl (Noel Sphinx, Jr.)

Co-Starring:

Contents

Segments

  • Kubrick's Rule (EKA #136)

In order to stop its incessant singing, Irving and Dave give Hank the computer a program he can never finish: start with 3; add 4; stop if the sum is even; if not go back to step 2.


  • Music Video: "That's Infinity" (EKA #101)

The song introduces the idea that there is no largest number. The graphics suggest several infinite collections to support the song.


  • Newsroom Interruption: Infinity (EKA #101)


  • Infinity (EKA #126)

The camera zooms in on Beverly sitting in a room with a picture of Beverly sitting in a room with a picture of Beverly sitting in a room -- to illustrate the idea of infinite regress.


  • Odd and Even Hands (EKA #122)

2 hands stick out different numbers of fingers, and a voice calls out Odd or Even.


  • Odd Pair

Felicia tells Oscarina that adding 2 odd numbers always results in an even number, and adding 2 evens results in an even number.


  • Moebius Trip Beverly

Beverly demonstrates how to make a moebius strip, a strip of paper with only one side.


  • Moebius Trip

This animation uses an automobile trip to illustrate the 1-sidedness of the moebius strip.


  • "And on..." (EKA #101)


  • Backstage with Blackstone: Heads or Tails (EKA #109)

After a spectator has turned over pairs of coins from a pile of 10 dimes, Blackstone uses the principle of parity to correctly determine whether a covered coin is heads or tails.


  • Mathnet: The Mystery of the Maltese Pigeon - Part 5 (EKA #130)

Thinking logically and mathematically, the Mathnetters determine that Bridget stole the bird from Gutman - and they trap her into a confession.


Credits

Mahnet

  • Content Director: Joel Schneider
  • Assistant Content Director: Kathryn Aucoin
  • Story Researcher: Linda Schupack
  • Content Assistant: Brett Pierce
  • Mathematics Consultant: Edward T. Esty
  • Vice President for Research: Keith W. Mielke
  • Directors of Research: Diane Field, Bettina Peel
  • Researchers: Anne E. Nesbitt, Sheri Offerman, Alexndra Rochwell
  • Research Consultant: Milton Chen
  • Chairman, Board of Advisors: Gerald S. Lesser
  • Advisory Board Staff: Dr. Sadie Bragg, Ms. Marilyn Burns, Dr. Robert Davis, Dr. Richard Griego, Mr. Wayne Goodwin, Dr. Peter Hilton, Magdalene Lampert, Dr. Katherine Merseth, Dr. Henry Pollak, Ms. Yolanda Rodriguez, Dr. Elizabeth Stage, Dr. Harold Stevenson, Dr. Zalman Usiskin, Ms. Nancy Varner, Mr. William U. Walton, Dr. Charles Whitney, Dr. Stephen Willoughby
  • Vice President for Production: Al Hyslop
  • Production and Post Production Facilities by Unitel Video, Inc.


Notes

Trivia

The Show

Allusions and References

Quotes

  • Mathnet Announcer: Maureen O'Reilly was tried and convicted of a 459, burglary, and a 487A, grand theft autobahn. She was put away from society for an appropriate number of years.