Square One TV/Episode 427

Episode 427
Season 4, Episode 27
Airdate	November 5, 1991
Production Number	182
Written by
Directed by
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Square One TV — Season Four

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Episode 427 is the twenty-seventh episode of the fourth season of Square One TV, and the one-hundred eighty-second episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Bobby McFerrin (Himself), Akili Prince (Stanley Swinin), John Moschitta, Jr. (Johnny Dollar)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Music Video: "Wanna Be" (Bobby McFerrin) (EKA #301) (cut from the Noggin version)

This is a song which points out that whatever one wants to be, one needs to know math.

• Dirk Niblick: Golden Years - Part 1

Beasley has money to invest, Dirk dicusses interest. After seeing companies with a broker, Beasley chooses to invest in the one that pays 300% of its profits instead of 10%. But what are its profits?

• Big Numbers: Million & Billion

This segment compares the length of time it takes a clock to tick off 1,000,000 and then 1,000,000,000 seconds.

• Person on the Street: $10 a Day (EKA #305) (cut from the Noggin version)

People on the street are asked: If you spend $10 day, it will take about 3 1/2 months to spend $1,000. How long will it take to spend 1,000,000? $1,000,000,000?

• Mathnet: The Case of the Purloined Polices - Part 5

Pat and George see the insurance data on computer and in charts and graphs. They notice that all payouts were for cars reported stolen and not found, and focus on the Greenwich Village office.

Quotes

• Pat: Suppose we could calculate the odds.
• George: Yeah, but my calculator doesn't go that high. Pat, these steps must be related.
• Pat: Yeah? But how?