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Re: What is the question to 42?
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07/13/07 19:12
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But maybe everything is not every question you can ask but the number of dimensions in our universe or something we can not understand
Yeah, but in the movie and TV series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 42 is said to be the answer to the question of "life, the universe and everything."
So uhm, eventhough you've made a good point, there seems to be more to it. I think like said earlier 42 might be the number of a door, apartment, house or even a library, where all these answers can be found. Otherwise something as "anti-relative" as a single number can't possibly be the answer to whatever question.
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Re: What is the question to 42?
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07/13/07 19:37
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42 is the apartement number of Fox Mulder
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Re: What is the question to 42?
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07/14/07 08:04
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the poor computer was asked for a single answer to a ridiculously generic question. perhaps the number 42 is the sum of all answers in life, the universe, and everything. remember that this includes negative numbers, which allows it to be so small, and complex numbers -- since imaginary numbers are so rarely applicable in every day use, every positive answer has a negative counterpart and adds up to zero, which is why the answer only has a real component. the limitless magnitude of numbers towards positive infinity is canceled out by their negative counterparts. the only things that don't cancel out are questions regarding people's wages -- which would obviously add up to a positive number larger than 42 -- and other similar questions. these vastly positive results are canceled out by the counting of particles of anti-matter, which add up negatively. anti-matter out-weights matter just enough that all those aforementioned positive results are beaten down to 42. perhaps due to the vastness of the question and the impossibility of giving a single answer, the non-numeric answers were either ignored, assigned numeric quantities according to popularity (similar to google's pagerank), assigned values based on the amount of characters involved in the answer, or many other combinations/possibilities. or am i just being silly? julz
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Re: What is the question to 42?
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07/16/07 21:57
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42 could be the answer to: What is the average score of an American on a test? What age will I die? How many people have posted in this thread? How many people are trying to use the warez version of 3DGS today? How many projects I've made that I've forgotten about? How many posts Doug replied to today? How many cigarretts Realspawn smoked today? j/k How many beers I had last night How many times We all wanted to slap our ex-girlfriends/wife/etc.? How many times I wandered why I'm writing all this? How many people I'm going to bother writing all this retarded stuff because I have nothing else to do? well, that killed a little bit of time...
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Re: What is the question to 42?
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07/24/07 09:54
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I found it out yesterday while watching some Stargate episodes from the DVD.... How long, in minutes, is one Stargate Episode? 42!
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