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Square One TV/Episode 313
| Episode 313 | |
| Season 3, Episode 13 | |
| Airdate | January 31, 1990 |
| Production Number | 128 |
| Written by | |
| Directed by | |
| ← 3x12 Episode 312 |
3x14 → Episode 314 |
| Square One TV — Season Three | |
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Episode 313 is the thirteenth episode of the third season of Square One TV, and the one-hundred twenty-eighth episode overall.
Starring:
Guest Starring: Irving Metzman (Blons Moedock), Helen Hanft (Female Customer), Cullen Johnson (Edwin Moose), Wayne Knight (Peter Pickwick)
Co-Starring:
Contents |
Segments
- Person on the Street: 1 Pizza a Day
People on the street are asked: If you eat 1 pizza a day, how long will it take to eat 1,000 pizzas? 1,000,000 pizzas? 1,000,000,000?
- Big Numbers: Billion (EKA #309) (cut from the Noggin version)
This segment compares 1,000,000,000 to 1,000,000, and tells the viewer that 1,000,000,000 seconds is almost 32 years.
- Michigan Stadium: Ping-Pong Balls (cut from the Noggin version)
The following question is posed to the viewer: How many ping-pong balls would it take to fill the Michigan Stadium to the top?
- EB: Number Pattern (cut from the Noggin version)
This short animation illustrates a number pattern beginning with 9 X 1 + 2 = 11 and continuing through 9 X 123456789 + 10 = 1111111111.
- But Who's Counting?: Buck R. Roos vs. Outa Control
Players arrange 5 randomly chosen digits to form the smallest possible 5-digit number, with a wild spin. To play, they must apply some knowledge of place value and probability.
- In Search of the Giant Squid (EKA #114)
The navigator of a submarine fails to consider the concept of scale -- and mistakenly thinks that they are only centimeters away from a giant iceberg.
- Mathnet: The Case of the Parking Meter Massacre - Part 3
Mathnetters find the thief is Peter Pickwick who makes an extra copy of the meter collection schedule. A reporter prints George's story that one of his coins is valuable, and another meter is smashed.
Notes
Trivia
The Show
Allusions and References
Quotes
- Captain Greco: Hello, Mathnetters.
- George: Hello, Captain Greco.
- Kate: Hi, Captain. Don't tell us. You've got another case for us already.
- Captain Greco: Not another case, Kate. The same case.
- George: What do you mean?
- Captain Greco: A parking meter just got knocked over on 25th of Madison. Maybe you arrested the wrong guy. The wrong guy.
