42 was "Deep Thought's" answer to the ultimate question. When asked
what the Ultimate question was it came up with "What is 6 by 9?"
giving prrof that beings with 10 digits on hands or feet were not the
ultimate being but rather those with 13 digits and learnt to count
with a system to the base "13" not "10". 42 to the base 13 is 54 to
the base 10!
On 06/10/2009, at 8:52 AM, Rob Kimberley wrote:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!
Rob K
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Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cautionary tale #4711
In a message dated 06/10/2009 09:27:38 GMT Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Another common arbitrary number is 42
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I'm sure there was a book associated with that, wasn't it
Steinbeck's "Of
Mice and Men"?:-)
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