[time-nuts] Cautionary tale #4711

Ross T61AA t61aa at amsat.org
Tue Oct 6 09:23:56 UTC 2009


42 was "Deep Thought's" answer to the ultimate question. When asked  
what the Ultimate question was  it came up with "What is 6 by 9?"  
giving prrof that beings with 10 digits on hands or feet were not the  
ultimate being but rather those with 13 digits and learnt to count  
with a system to the base "13" not "10".   42 to the base 13 is 54 to  
the base 10!

On 06/10/2009, at 8:52 AM, Rob Kimberley wrote:

> Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!
>
> Rob K
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> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cautionary tale #4711
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> In a message dated 06/10/2009 09:27:38 GMT Daylight Time,
> magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org writes:
>
> Another  common arbitrary number is 42
>
>
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> I'm sure there was a book associated with that, wasn't it  
> Steinbeck's "Of
> Mice and Men"?:-)
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