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Why is 42 the "Answer to Life, the Universe, and E

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"The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story."

- Douglas Adams

Posted: 2004-07-23 4:31:13 PM

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