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right-track · 08-26-2006, 05:05 PM

42.

MoonlitSunshine · 08-26-2006, 05:07 PM

6 X 9 = ^

right-track · 08-26-2006, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine

6 X 9 = ^

But 42 is the question...not the answer.

MoonlitSunshine · 08-26-2006, 05:22 PM

nonono

42 was the answer to the question of Life the universe and everything

right-track · 08-26-2006, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine

nonono

42 was the answer to the question of Life the universe and everything

I stand corrected.

In Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the number from which all meaning ("the meaning of life, the universe, and everything") could be derived.

A BBC radio script based on Adams' book contains the following lines:

("Cave man" lays out following sentence in Scrabble stones: "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?")
Arthur: Six by nine? Forty-two? You know, I've always felt that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Universe.
(Faint and distant voice

Base thirteen!

For the literal-minded and those unfamiliar with terms like "base thirteen," this is a number system in which the number 10 is equivalent to our more familiar decimal 13. A base-13 number 42, therefore, is the same as four 13s plus 2, or decimal 54. So "six by nine" (six times nine) or decimal 54 is, in base 13, 42. For the mystically inclined, 42 in base 13 is the same as 110110 in binary (base 2). This could mean almost anything, and many Adams fans have spent untold hours discovering all of the places where the number "42" pops up. For example, there are many mentions of the number in the Book of Revelation. Others have made a game of finding 42s, such as these:

* The angle at which light reflects off of water to create a rainbow is 42 degrees.
* Two physical constants in the universe are the speed of light and thediameter of a proton. It takes light 10 to the minus 42nd power seconds to cross the diameter of a proton.
* The sum of the ordinal alphabetic positions of the initials (SPG) for Stan (P.) Gibilisco, an oft-published science and technology writer, is equal to 42 (S=19, P=16, G=7).
* A barrel holds 42 gallons.

(It should be noted that all of these 42s are base 10, not base 13.)

Urban Hat€monger ? · 08-26-2006, 05:40 PM

Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy started life as a Dr Who script for Tom Bakers Doctor.

Just thought i`d display my geek tendencies

MoonlitSunshine · 08-26-2006, 05:40 PM

Crazy. I wasn't aware of the whole base 13 thing, as I have never read the script. Douglas Adams was a genius

right-track · 08-26-2006, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine

Crazy. I wasn't aware of the whole base 13 thing, as I have never read the script. Douglas Adams was a genius

Actually he only came up with the answer of '42' because he "just liked the sound the number made". He thought it to be the funniest sounding number of all...apparently.
Yes he was a genius.

Urban...you are an anorak.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 08-26-2006, 05:47 PM

Yeah but it`s the coolest anorak in history

MoonlitSunshine · 08-26-2006, 05:48 PM

^that's not saying much

08-26-2006, 05:07 PM	#422 (permalink)
MoonlitSunshine Dat's Der Bunny! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 1,088	6 X 9 = ^ __________________ "I found it eventually, at the bottom of a locker in a disused laboratory, with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard". Ever thought of going into Advertising?" - Arthur Dent

08-26-2006, 05:22 PM	#424 (permalink)
MoonlitSunshine Dat's Der Bunny! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 1,088	nonono 42 was the answer to the question of Life the universe and everything __________________ "I found it eventually, at the bottom of a locker in a disused laboratory, with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard". Ever thought of going into Advertising?" - Arthur Dent

08-26-2006, 05:40 PM	#426 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy started life as a Dr Who script for Tom Bakers Doctor. Just thought i`d display my geek tendencies __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

08-26-2006, 05:40 PM	#427 (permalink)
MoonlitSunshine Dat's Der Bunny! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 1,088	Crazy. I wasn't aware of the whole base 13 thing, as I have never read the script. Douglas Adams was a genius __________________ "I found it eventually, at the bottom of a locker in a disused laboratory, with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard". Ever thought of going into Advertising?" - Arthur Dent

08-26-2006, 05:47 PM	#429 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Yeah but it`s the coolest anorak in history __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

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08-26-2006, 05:48 PM	#430 (permalink)
MoonlitSunshine Dat's Der Bunny! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 1,088	^that's not saying much __________________ "I found it eventually, at the bottom of a locker in a disused laboratory, with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard". Ever thought of going into Advertising?" - Arthur Dent