Now that's deep :)
Lucky my daughter wasn't around when I followed the instructions.
Stone, Marshall wrote:
HEX 42 in Binary - 0100 0010 - now using fingers up/down to represent digits...
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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
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www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the
universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human
fallibility. - Carl Sagan
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