Eps 635: The number 42
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When Douglas Adams wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, he added a central joke which has become more famous over the years than the novel itself: "The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42."
Scores of adolescents have posited theories about significance of the number.
4. The first time Douglas Adams essayed the number 42 was in a sketch called "The Hole in the Wall Club".
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In this popular book, 42 is the number of seven and a half million years in which the supercomputer Deep Thought provided the ultimate question: "Life, the universe and everything." Although the answer was never explained by deep thoughts, it was in many ways interpreted as an angel and number 42. This has happened in the world of angels and is interpreted in many ways, such as as as a symbol of life, a sign of love or even as a message from God.
The computer was created to discover this question while it was on planet Earth, and the answer was 42. The mystery of the number stems from the computer's "stumbling" of Deep Thought, in which computers discovered the question and stumbled upon the answers.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, an advanced alien who created a supercomputer called Deep Thought to answer the so-called "ultimate question." After 7.5 million years, she determined that the answer was 42. Deep thoughts did not know the exact question they were supposed to answer, making 42 a completely meaningless answer.
Why Adams chose 42 is the subject of much speculation, but in 2007 he put many of those assumptions on hold due to a fan-based Usenet newsgroup. The answer is simple: But Deep Thought knew that every supercomputer known on Earth was designed by it to raise a question every 10 million years.
Adams's mysterious number has even inspired a number of other science fiction novels, including "Hitchhiking Through the Galaxy" and "A Clockwork Orange." No one has chosen the number 42, which is an ordinary, smaller number, but it is one of the most famous numbers in science fiction.
Douglas Adams was wrong to pick 42 and say it was a wildcard, but he was not wrong in the sense that he was wrong.
Although 42 may not necessarily be the answer to the ultimate question of life, it has the largest number of known facts in the world and may have a larger number than any other number, as there are no answers to life outside the universe. The number 42 on the back of a letter-by-letter list contains exactly 42 letters, with the exception of 42 letters.
Arthur Dent Ford's "The Prefect" found that multiplying six by nine gives you the number 42 that first appeared in a radio play and was found by Arthur Dent and Ford in "Prefect."
The English author Douglas Adams published his first novel, "The Hunting Snark," in which he is obsessed with the number 42. The fact that Adams named an episode of the radio play "Fit" after a chapter or section Lewis Carroll uses in "Hunting snark" suggests that he was influenced by Carroll's fascination with numbers and his frequent use of them. The English mathematician and author of a number of books on mathematics is actually himself a mathematician.
Arthur Dent Ford, "The Prefect," found out what you get when you multiply six by nine, and it first appeared in a radio play. A supercomputer called Deep Thought spent 7.5 million years pondering the ultimate question, but no one remembers what the question is until they find the answer.
The street of New York City is also the location of a film of the same name, which also made a name for itself and later inspired a musical adaptation of 42nd Street. The fact that Adams named the episode in the radio play "Fits" after a chapter or section used by Lewis Carroll in "Hunting Snark" suggests that he was influenced by Carroll's fascination with the frequent use of numbers.
Popular gadget magazine A StuffA did not publish a number 42 in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, instead the 41st issue was followed by the 43rd. The SC7A Architecture Working Group chose AG 42 because architecture is the answer to life and the universe and everything, ignoring designations 26 and 41.
A 42 is the number used to encode the first two digits of a number in a computer program such as Microsoft Word or Excel.
The software used to solve the 42 is the same code used for the number 33 previously discovered by Booker and published in the journal Research in Number Theory. As Booker explains in this video, this is not the first time that the sum of three dice numbers has been found. I would also like to see whether this is a question that the mathematician Louis Mordell asked as early as the early 1950s.
You will remember that giant computers like Deep Thought offer answers to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything in between, but no answers.