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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:04 pm

^^It was about that but now it's about the far more important fact that 5 is more important then 10, and 42 has no purpose.

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:00 pm

Standard Procedure wrote:

Whoa! I misread the thread title as "girl on girl avatar" Laughing

Please do not give Rodus any more ideas.

I read the first few sentences here about the number 42 and my head almost exploded. So proceed at your own risk.

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:02 pm

I've already got plenty thanks PRS Very Happy

This is why 5 is so important.

Quote:

There are five solutions to Zn�m's problem of length 6.

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:43 pm

PRS Girly Girl wrote:

I read the first few sentences here about the number 42 and my head almost exploded. So proceed at your own risk.

watch out shes gonna blow Shocked

BANG

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:56 pm

I'd like to know who this is (in MC's avatar):

And before anybody asks, no I don't know the name of the girl in mine.

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:02 pm

@prs, try this link for 42 . Wink

The explanation is a bit simpler...

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:08 pm

@ kleindoofy, I'd always wanted to ask. Who is she?

It would now appear that that would be fruitless!

I'll get my coat on the way out.

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:46 am

@ ratter & PRS, I forget, what is the question? Shocked

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:57 am

^What is 6 x 9?

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:03 am

54....

I think everyone's talking about 42 because Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is very trendy at the moment on this site... largely because of Shiver's latest bait.

I'm sure we'll move on to some other number again soon.

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:06 am

Oh ye of little understanding..

Quote:

as the last human to have left the Earth before its destruction, therefore the portion of the computer matrix most likely to hold the question � attempts to discover the Question by extracting it from his unconscious mind, through pulling Scrabble letters at random out of a sack. The result is the sentence "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE?" Arthur then remarks, "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe."

"Six by nine. Forty-two."
"That's it. That's all there is."

The explanation is that the program (Earth) would have run correctly if not for the interference of events such as the crash landing of the Golgafrinchans causing them to replace the original inhabitants. These important modifications introduced error into the program and caused it to discover the wrong question; the question in Arthur's mind has been the wrong question all along.

It was later pointed out by readers that 6 � 9 = 42 if the calculations are performed in base 13, not base 10, which gives an answer of 54. Douglas Adams later averred that he was not aware of this at the time, and repeatedly dismissed this as an irrelevant concoction, saying that "nobody writes jokes in base 13 [...] I may be a pretty sad person, but I don't make jokes in base 13."

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:20 am

Sorry I don't know the whole of the book. Perhaps I should listen to all 8 hours of audio from shiver's latest bait....

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 2301

I still like the square root of 69.

Eight somethin'....errrrrr ate somethin'. Whatever.

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:37 am

Okay, I'll admit: it is me Embarassed

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:38 am

I'm going to commit sacrilege here and say I hated HHGTTG, it was one of the dullest, least funny books I have ever read. Which is possibly why the number 42 really isn't funny.

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:49 pm

SACRILEGE!!!!

Actually.... to be honest I haven't read the book. I've seen the movie, which was entertaining, but largely because I had never seen anything quite so weird and bizarre before.

Elite Baiter Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1269

I started reading the book once, but never really got past the first chapter or so. Josh, you're certainly giving Scam Patroller a run for his money when it comes to postcount. Razz

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:10 pm

The answer to the ploughmans lunch question was 12.

The answer to this question is 36/24/38.

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:46 pm

The question is 'What is the South Dakota law code prohibiting a false statement in application for license or renewal of a hearing aid?'

Either that or 'What are your stats?'

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:52 pm

No.

The question is: who this is (in MC's avatar)?:

Priorities, people, priorities.