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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Sarek's age
Message-ID: <502@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 19:15:59 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.502
Posted: Mon Dec 17 19:15:59 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 01:14:04 EST
References: <2630@dartvax.UUCP>
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> Article <2630@dartvax.UUCP>, from raiche@dartvax.UUCP (George A. Raiche)
+----------------
| From "Journey to Babel" (D.C. Fontana), Spock's father Sarek is 102.437
| TERRESTRIAL years old.  One notes that specifying the age to this precision
| (10^-3 yrs) implies that Sarek (the one who gives the age) knows his age
| with an uncertainty of approximately 8 hrs and 46 minutes.  One would
| think he'd know his date and time of birth more precisely, being the hard-
| guy Vulcan that he is.

(1) He most likely wouldn't give it to the second, that'd be self-defeating;
(2) Accounting for that, it might be either exact or nonterminating (really
    102.4369999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999...
    years old); and what about the vagaries in translation when a double
    planet is involved?

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