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Originally Posted by MmeBlueberry
I'm teaching math starting in the fall. ...Gotta figure out new excuses for showing Trek clips in class.
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Warp speed is calculated in logarithms.
Tribbles should be good for exponents.
The late
Star Trek: The Magazine actually used to do filler articles on the percentage of episodes where various stereotypical events happened, like Kirk getting his shirt ripped, Voyager losing a shuttlecraft, Kirk getting the girl, etc. That's charts/statistics.
Bajor used a 26-hour clock, IIRC; that's a basis for teaching "clock math," or introducing the concept of base-something-other-than-10.
Instead of the usual "A train leaves Chicago at 3pm..." try "Enterprise leaves Vulcan on stardate 47523.1 traveling at warp 3..."