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From: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Vulcan arithmetic
Message-ID: <337@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Nov-85 14:46:59 EST
Article-I.D.: mmm.337
Posted: Thu Nov 28 14:46:59 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 29-Nov-85 21:29:59 EST
References: <1137@rayssd.UUCP> <298@utflis.UUCP> <288@mmm.UUCP> <1187@jhunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
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Summary: 

In article <1187@jhunix.UUCP> ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Adam Arromdee) writes:
>In article <288@mmm.UUCP> cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) writes:
>> In "The Trouble with Tribbles",
>>Spock computes the number of tribbles in the grain storage compartment
>>(it's some large number ending with three, I think) and then tells us
>>how he computed it...

>It doesn't end in 3 and in fact is a power of 11. Spock claims that it
>allows for the volume of the storage compartment, etc... but it doesn't.

It could allow for the volume of the storage compartment and the other
factors he mentions if in fact the storage compartment was larger than
necessary for the computed number of tribbles, etc, etc.  The real
problem is that he computes an exact number from an "average" litter
size and an "assumed" starting time and initial number of tribbles.
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