HEX 42 in Binary - 0100 0010 - now using fingers up/down to represent digits...
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Friday, December 01, 2017 11:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXT] Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again And check out the first two religious meanings for 42: In Japanese, pronouncing the two digits is the same as the word for death. In Egypt, 42 questions are asked of a dead person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)#Religion On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Jack J. Woehr <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/30/2017 2:47 AM, Edward Gould wrote: >> >> I know I shouldn’t ask but what is “42”. > > > The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, as revealed by Deep > Thought in Douglas Adams's _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_. > > Another computer was then built to discover what indeed is the > Question to Life, the Universe, and Everything. > > "Computers are useless, they can only give you answers." - Pablo > Picasso > > -- > Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of > www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the > universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human > fallibility. - Carl Sagan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
