"Ralph Mowery" wrote in
:

You have to be a science fiction fan to understand this.

From the movie Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Anyway there is a super
computer that has been working for 7 1/2 million years for the answer of
life and the answer is 42 which is 101010 in bianary.


I'm very familiar with HGGTTG and I still didn't understand what his post was
about. As to 42, I like the interpretation of life being 'all at sixes and
sevens', i.e. irrational, indeterministic, a big part of the whole HHGTTG
thing, and also of Adam's other work too.

Apparently Stephen Fry is one of the very few people (perhaps the only one)
to know the real, original derivation of 42, and why it was chosen, but I
like my idea partly because it's not one I have ever heard from anyone else.