Talk:Spock (Kelvin timeline)



I finally saw the 2009 Star Trek reboot movie on DVD recently and noticed an un-Spock-like blooper set in his childhood:
 * Question: The square root of 2,396,324?
 * Young Spock: 1,548.

Close, but no cigar. If that number was meant to test Spock, he should have calculated it to be something like "1,548.00646" (with the last "6" a roundoff of "5993...").

That 2,396,324 is NOT a perfect square is also seen from its digital root: the digits sum to 29, 2+9=11, and 1+1=2. The digital root of all perfect squares are 1, 4, 7 (the DR of 16), and 9, so 2 denotes a non-square.

It happens that 1,548 squared is actually 2,396,304 (the original number without "twenty-"), whose digital root is 9. Apparently this was not proofread before making it on the screen. --Glenn L 19:01, October 15, 2011 (UTC)