2007-12-31 10:00:08 · 6 answers · asked by ???whatthe??? 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
WHy is it 42?????????
2007-12-31 10:05:42 · update #1
42
"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
Some religious fanatics say that it is because it is 101010 in binary; which is supposed to represent the Holy Trinity - "Father, Son, Holy Ghost"
To choose to believe that is your personal religious entitlement (I don't)
From Wikipedia:
Through archival recordings, he relates the story of a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who built a computer named Deep Thought to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. When the answer was revealed as 42, they were told to build a more powerful computer to work out what the Ultimate Question actually was, but their plans never come to fruition. (Later on, referencing this, Adams would create a puzzle which could be approached in multiple ways, all yielding the answer 42.)
One of those is 6 x 9 = 42; but only in base-13 number system
2007-12-31 10:22:00 · answer #1 · answered by big_george 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
keep doing it. It's fun !!!!!!!!!!!
2007-12-31 10:09:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is just a bowl of cereal.
2007-12-31 10:08:54 · answer #3 · answered by Gregory B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im with everyone else... 42
i dont no what that is but everyone else is sayin it
2007-12-31 10:08:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
42 (according to A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).
2007-12-31 10:05:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
42
2007-12-31 10:04:39 · answer #6 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋