Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa 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> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Distribution: net Organization: Unix-like Operating Systems Consultant Lines: 20 Summary: > 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? --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa (..ncoast!tdi1!bsa business) 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio 44131 (216) 524-1416 <<<<<< An equal opportunity employer: I both create and destroy bugs :-) >>>>>>