Why is the answer 42?
"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."
-Douglas Adams
I just love the fact that there is absolutely no meaning whatsoever to it. It makes me laugh every time I think about it.
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."
-Douglas Adams
I just love the fact that there is absolutely no meaning whatsoever to it. It makes me laugh every time I think about it.