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| From: | Douglas Adams – view profile | ||
| Date: | Wed, Nov 3 1993 2:51 am |
In Article <2b4asr$…@syzygy.socs.uts.edu.au>, mjche…@socs.uts.EDU.AU
(Mark J Cherkas) wrote:
>I am new to this group so bear with this beginners question:
>Why is the answer 42 ?
>Has Douglas Adams ever explained this ?
>I am new to this group so bear with this beginners question:
>Why is the answer 42 ?
>Has Douglas Adams ever explained this ?
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.
Best,
Douglas Adams
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