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| Sketches in (hopefully) order: | ||||
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| 15950 | 101-01 | SHOW OPEN | 0:46 | BUMPER |
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| 10230 | 101-02 | INFINITY (SONG) | 3:18 | SONG |
| The song introduces the idea that there is no largest number. The graphics suggest several infinite collections to support the song. | ||||
| 16620 | 101-03 | (INFINITY) NEWSROOM INTERRUPT | 0:10 | BUMPER |
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| 15630 | 101-04 | MATHMAN: MULTIPLES OF 3 | 1:21 | ANIMATION |
| Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat only multiples of 3. | ||||
| 15970 | 101-05 | PHONER: THE ANSWER IS THREE | 2:23 | STUDIO |
| Arthur has a one-sided telephone conversation in which he chooses a number and performs a series of operations that always give him the answer of 3. | ||||
| 10231 | 101-06 | INFINITY REPRISE: 1 | 0:02 | BUMPER |
| -0- | ||||
| 11460 | 101-07 | BATTLE OF THE BULGE CATERERS: SANDWICHES | 4:41 | STUDIO |
| The Battle of the Bulge Catering Company must make more than 11 different sandwich combinations from two meats and three cheeses. The problem introduces the multiplication principle from combinatorics | ||||
| 16610 | 101-08 | OOPS! SUBTRACTION 300 - 163 | 1:27 | STUDIO |
| A confused engineer makes a 'borrowing' mistake in a subtraction problem and causes a stock-footage plane crash. | ||||
| 16621 | 101-09 | (INFINITY: 2) NEWSROOM INTERRUPT | 0:02 | BUMPER |
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| 16570 | 101-10 | (PERFECT SQUARES INTRO) LOGO | 0:03 | BUMPER |
| -0- | ||||
| 13140 | 101-11 | PERFECT SQUARES | 3:25 | SONG |
| A blues band sings about square numbers and graphically suggests their connection to geometry. | ||||
| 15930 | 101-12 | BUREAU OF MISSING NUMBERS: 14 | 1:59 | STUDIO |
| Terry Ryan, an FBI type, takes information pertaining to the number 14 and inputs this information into her computer. These characteristics include factors, whether or not it is prime or square, etc. | ||||
| 10232 | 101-13 | INFINITY REPRISE:2 | 0:02 | BUMPER |
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| 11031 | 101-14 | MATHNET:PROBLEM OF THE MISSING MONKEY-1 | 8:05 | MATHNET |
| The Mathnetters investigate a series of burglaries allegedly committed by a monkey that escaped from the zoo. | ||||
| 10233 | 101-15 | INFINITY REPRISE:3 | 0:03 | BUMPER |
| -0- | ||||
| Sketch Count: | 15 | |||
| Episode Length(may exclude credits): | 27:47 | |||
Notes: This is the first episode!
This episode originally aired with a special PBS logo reprise of the Infinity song.