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From: samuels@h-sc1.UUCP (ronald samuels)
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Subject: Re: The Kobiyashi Maru was a Klingon plot
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 14:24:06 EDT
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> In article <626@ssc-vax.UUCP> wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja) writes:
> 	You are essentially correct, since three points(ships) only
> define a plane. The correct number for the ambush is FOUR ships,
> so that they can englobe the E in a tetrahedron and prevent escape
> by covering all exit routes. 
> -- 
> 
> 				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)
> 

You're right that four ships would be need to englobe the ship, but an
englobement wouldn't be necessary.  All that would be needed is to 
prevent the enterprise from getting back to federation territory, therefore
three ships would suffice (define the plane blocking the path back to safe
space.
-- 

Ron Samuels
Harvard University Science Center

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