From: xrcjd@mudpuppy.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles J. Divine)
Subject: Re: TIFF: philosophical significance of 42 (SILLY)
Organization: NASA/GSFC Greenbelt Maryland
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In article <1r3lf9$fu0@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Mark A. Cartwright <markc@emx.utexas.edu> writes:
>Well,
>
>42 is 101010 binary, and who would forget that its the
>answer to the Question of "Life, the Universe, and Everything else."
>That is to quote Douglas Adams in a round about way.
>
>Of course the Question has not yet been discovered...

But the Question was later revealed to be:  What is 9 x 6?  (In the
base 13 system, of course.)


-- 
Chuck Divine
