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| Sketches in (hopefully) order: | ||||
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| 15950 | 141-01 | SHOW OPEN | 0:46 | BUMPER |
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| 14521 | 141-02 | (MODERATELY F.S.) NEWSROOM INTERRUPT:17 | 1:10 | BUMPER |
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| 14520 | 141-03 | MODERATELY FRIGHTENING STORIES | 4:10 | STUDIO |
| To distract a computer, Igor and the mad scientist give it a never-ending program: start with 1; multiply by 1/2; stop if the answer is zero; otherwise, go back to step two. | ||||
| 15670 | 141-04 | MATHMAN: MULTIPLES OF 5 | 1:09 | ANIMATION |
| Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat only numbers that are multiples of 5. | ||||
| 13390 | 141-05 | BATTLE OF THE BULGE CATERERS: TRAYS | 5:40 | STUDIO |
| Having a limited number of trays, the Battle of the Bulge Caterers must rearrange sandwiches so that the greatest possible number fit on a tray. | ||||
| 17292 | 141-06 | VO: HOW MUCH LEFT | 0:06 | BUMPER |
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| 12661 | 141-07 | FORESTRY I: DATA COLLECTING | 2:47 | LIVE ACTION FILM |
| Sybil Sawyer, Hollywood Reporter, gets stranded in a forest but still finds a story as she interviews a ranger who installs pressure plates to record the number of people who travel on a trail. | ||||
| 10911 | 141-08 | DISCLAIMER: ANGLES | 0:08 | BUMPER |
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| 10180 | 141-09 | ANGLE DANCE | 2:23 | SONG |
| The rock group Plane Geometry sings a song about angles and uses body movement to illustrate angles, as well. | ||||
| 15330 | 141-10 | PLAYING THE ANGLE | 3:00 | LIVE ACTION FILM |
| Nancy Lieberman, the first woman to play professional basketball, talks about and demonstrates the mathematics involved in basketball. She cites angles and parabolas, in particular. | ||||
| 15180 | 141-11 | PONG GAME | 0:19 | ANIMATION |
| This animation illustrates billiard geometry and shows a ball rebounding from wall to wall before finally exiting the one opening. | ||||
| 10540 | 141-12 | MATHNET-CASE OF THE MISSING BASEBALL-1 | 6:27 | MATHNET |
| The Mathnetters investigate a missing baseball by determining the angle at which it would have rebounded off a billboard. | ||||
| Sketch Count: | 12 | |||
| Episode Length(may exclude credits): | 28:05 | |||
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