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From: johnw@astroatc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Vulcan arithmetic
Message-ID: <199@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 04:18:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: astroatc.199
Posted: Wed Oct 16 04:18:30 1985
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References: <1137@rayssd.UUCP> <298@utflis.UUCP>
Reply-To: johnw@astroatc.UUCP (John F. Wardale)
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Keywords: seven tenths

In article <298@utflis.UUCP> brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown) writes:
>In article <1137@rayssd.UUCP> m1b@rayssd.UUCP (M. Joseph Barone) writes:
>>	In 'Errand of Mercy', where Kirk and Spock try to help
>>the Organians from Klingon domination, Spock computes their odds
>>of success to be some_large_number.7 to 1.  I want to know where
>>the .7 came from.  Any number divided by 2 will have either an
>>integral quotient or a quotient with a remainder of one (0.5).
>>Did Spock put weights to each Klingon of the garrison in deter-
>>mining that ratio?  What is the answer to this burning question?
>
Why should spock divide by 2?? (There's him+Spock, but there are
also 400+ people somwhere on the enterprise, and an undetermined?
number or organians, who might be perswaded to lend a hand too eh?

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