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Can someone please cite the fact that 42 is used in spore and fable II as a reference to Hitchhikers guide, it seems as though the movie was made before the number! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.23.50.162 (talk) 13:05, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
2042 isn't a historical date... its a future date —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.231.159.16 (talk) 16:52, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
WTF is the ipod nano advertisement doing in this section. The damn thing didn't exist when the show was written and it is only the answer to Seteve Jobs' pension fund problems.
I removed the line
only because it is made redundant by the Docuan table. However, if someone can elaborate why the binary translation is of interest, they should restore that line and follow it with the elaboration. PrimeFan 22:40, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Have removed reference to Elvis' death from the pop culture section. It was hardly intentional that he lived to only forty-two. And it's already mentioned further down in the article. TRiG 22:19, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
I just added a reference to a web page, Deep Thought, that includes a vast number of sightings of 42. I'd like to copy over the entries to Wikipedia, so I and others could start work on getting references for all of them(many are from TV shows, books, etc.), but I'm not sure if that is OK, what sort of paraphrasing would be necessary, etc... I'll email the webmaster of the page, anyway, and see what reply I get back. JesseW 06:21, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
If you do start to copy some of these sightings, I think that it would be wise to leave out all the sightings from TV, movies ect. where it is just coincidentally mentioned. Eg. If af person has a phonenumber wich contains "42" then I would say that is beyond the scope of an encyclopedia. If people were interested in that they can always just visit the site. Eruantalon 6 Oct 2004
Do we really need a list of every 42 sighting? Why bother - most of them will be totally insignificant. Gamaliel 19:00, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
My point exactly, though I do find some of them amusing, especially those that relate directly back to something in Douglas Adams's Books. Eg. the one about mice, though it might be to much work to try to explain in this article. Perhaps we should mention that Douglas Adams claims that he picked the number at random. Eruantalon 6 Oct 2004
Newsflash: Not every reference of the number 42 must relate to HGTTG. I'm removing a couple of sentences to this effect. --195.92.67.68 21:24, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I don't have a deck of cards handy right now, so I don't want to edit this new tidbit just yet:
But this needs to be verified and clarified (that we're talking about which standard deck of cards, for one thing).
If every Jack, Queen and King has four eyes (two on the top head and two on the head mirrored below), that means that the royal cards of a given suit have twelve eyes total. Multiply that by four suits and you get 48. So if 42 is correct, that means that some of the royal cards, the royal personage is painted in profile so only one eye shows on the top head (and one more eye on the head mirrored below). PrimeFan 21:23, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
Is the number 6 associated with the Devil and 7 with God? I think that sentence can go.--Lkjhgfdsa 20:22, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
I am not the most experienced person at making wiki edits, so i bring it up here, and invite someone else to try it. But i do believe the article referenced [here] might contain some new insights into the value of 42.
In numerology you usually use single digit numbers.. so if you use 42..=> 4+2=6 6= Devil... what does this mean for the question :: the answer to life, the universe and everything ? To me it means that we are heading down a "dark path" which means the "Devil" is winning .. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.54.3.194 (talk) 00:39, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
4orty 2wo is actually a ARG gaming company that has nade the ARG's of the like of 'ilovebees' and 'lastcallpoker'
Somebody should probably remove the entry of the Capital High students, as it seems as though they added it themselves.
Why does the bit about the Nintendo DS Lite being 42 percent smaller keep getting deleted?
This article says:
Actually, the quantity listed is "the sixth moment" of the zeta-function, not the third. There are articles by Conrey & Ghosh and by Conrey & Gonek which conjecture how the number 42 comes into play. It is not exactly as the article describes.
I don't know what this means. Here's a guess:
I'm accustomed to the definition of momnets of probability measures; if ζ were a probability density function then the integral above would be the third moment of the corresponding probability distribution. But ζ is negative in some places, and from the way ζ(s) blows up at s = 1 it seems we'd have to be thinking of a Cauchy principal value or something like that.
Can someone make the article's statement clearer? Michael Hardy 17:50, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
“ | So, feel free to post this comment for me:
I don't know anything about the "3rd moment of the Riemann zeta function", but perhaps what's meant is the 3rd moment of the distribution of spacings between zeroes of the Riemann zeta function. There's a lot of evidence relating the distribution of these spacings to the distribution of spaces between eigenvalues of a large random self-adjoint matrix. For lots more, try this: http://www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~mwatkins/zeta/bump-gue.htm and for general connections between the Riemann zeta function and quantum mechanics, try: http://www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~mwatkins/zeta/physics1.htm Best, jb |
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Update on this: John Baez was wrong too. See the article as it now stands. Michael Hardy 22:13, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Someone must have objected to the inclusion of this:
I don't have a problem with it, but I object to the use of an asterisk for ordinary multiplication in TeX. Here's how to do it:
Michael Hardy 22:13, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I clicked the link "the answer to life, the universe, and everything" into Google, as suggested by the article, and besides seeing the answer from Google's calculator, I noticed that the top result, which is the Wikipedia article, is reported to be 42k long! Itub 03:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Onlyabititalian 19:56, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
42,000 isn't 42 anyway. :-p 205.206.207.250 04:37, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
There was a third question to the answer 42, implied in the 5th book in the Hichhiker's series, Mostly Harmless. The address of the bar Stavro Mueller Beta is number 42. This is significant, because Arthur Dent, the last bit of the original Earth computer, had been asking everyone where Stavromula Beta was, because he couldn't die untill he had been there. His arrival there was the final key event in the utter destruction of all Earths, as orchestrated by The Guide 2.0 for the Vogons.
I guess my point is, why isn't this on the page?
I find the Television and Film section very pointless and unnecessary. It seems that if the number 42 apears anywhere, someone has to add it to the list. It has no encyclopedic value! Please, someone delete it. Aaron Pepin
Probably it is obvious, but I am a biologist and not a mathmatician, but to put a joke in a vector I wanted to write 42 so I squared it to have more nucletides, and I got 0123210 in base 4. is this palindrome of significance to the number part?
I have put a mention of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in the Film & TV and Literature section as I think it is one of the biggest for both. Should I have? - - Nicko 08:11, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
It is not true that there is a relation to Carroll's book. See the Wikipedia article about "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy". There is not special reason for that number.62.112.52.199 (talk) 10:49, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
"'What!' ejaculated Mr Pickwick, laying his hand upon his notebook," is what wikipedia has. Is this accurate?
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Kay Dekker (talk • contribs) 19:12, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Today I was very bored and noticed something interesting: I couldn't find any integer (aside from zero and multiples/factors of 42) that when divided by 42 didn't produce a repeating decimal pattern. Observe:
In every one of these cases, the last 6 digits after the decimal point repeat forever. (1/42 = 0.0238095238095238095...) Is there a term for this? Is it a known phenomenon or just a strange coincidence? 205.206.207.250 04:53, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Granted that there is some stuff in the article that needs to be removed, but I think Eyrian's latest purge was exceedingly random and indiscriminate.
Some items get stated twice (e.g., that 42 is a LOST number) and other items appear rather ephemeral (WP:NUM prefers "ephemeral" over "trivial" in many contexts). But any purging needs to be done carefully, discriminately, and well-documentedly (with edit summaries and maybe even HTML comments). PrimeFan 22:35, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
I removed the following:
I don't think anyone would expect an article on 42 to have these items, but I could be wrong. Knodeltheory 14:53, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
I think you're ruining the fun of 42 by taking away all the inane references. Maybe there's need for two versions of the page. 121.45.231.114 09:01, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
I still don't think it belongs, but I've escalated the problem to Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Numbers#Super Bowl XLII, etc., which seems the appropriate venue. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 00:44, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Are we trying to write a contextualized encyclopedia article about the number 42, or a list of loosely associated trivia documenting each and every time the number 42 shows up in a film, book, or television show??? Burntsauce 20:11, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
"In Japanese, 4 (shi) and 2 (ni) are together pronounced like "going to death" (死に). Because of that, in Japan, 42 is considered as a disastrous number."
Ive never heard of this. Forty two(四十二)is pronounced yonjū-ni (preferred) or shijū-ni. It doesn't sound like 死に at all. Admittedly I have never been to Japan (going on March) but I do study Japanese and I'm really skeptical on this. Jyuichi (talk) 03:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
42 is actually related to both string theory and the golden ratio:
1. Take any two integers and add them together (e.g. 8 and 4 = 12), then add that one to the previous one and continue this way (e.g. 8,4,12,16,28...). Then it can be proved that dividing any number in this series by the previous one more and more closely approaches the golden ratio as you go higher and higher in the series. The Fibonacci series (0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21...) is the one such series that approaches the golden ratio most quickly. (The golden ratio is the most irrational of all numbers: (1+sqrt(5))/2 = 1.618....)
2. Double the Fibonacci series and you have the series 0,2,2,4,6,10,16,26,42,..., which happens to add up to 108 (considered a number of completion in Hinduism and Buddhism and critical--along with 42--in the popular "Lost" tv series).
3. This doubled Fibonacci series shows up in string theory, in the "hierarchy of dimensional compactification", starting with 26 dimensions. However, some physicists, including Mohammed El Naschie, believe that an extended string theory would begin with at least 42 dimensions (the next number in the series). 209.132.142.122 (talk) 21:05, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
shi ni (four two)—sound like the word "dying" like a Latin word "mori". – how exactly is the word mori related to this? Does it also sound like a number? If so, I think it should be specified which, if not, it should be removed. SuperJendrej (talk) 15:42, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
The article says the hexagram nro. 42 is the last one in 'The Book of Change'. Assuming that we are talking about THE 'Book of Change' - i.e. the I Ching -, it has 64 (sixty-four) hexagrams.
In the old testament book of Numbers, there is a list of forty two travels the Israelites took from Egypt to the promised land. Many KJV bibles even list "The forty two travels of the Israelites" as a section header. The travels/journeys are listed in Numbers 33:1-49. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.167.22.166 (talk) 15:29, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Is it a notability problem, or what? WNDL42 (talk) 03:33, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I learned of happy numbers from the Doctor Who episode 42. In describing happy numbers to some friends, I used 379 as an example of a happy number, and 42 as an example of an unhappy number. It turns out, 42 demonstrates its unhappiness by repeating itself...
42 -> 42 + 22 = 20 -> 22 + 02 = 4 -> 42=16 -> 12 + 62 = 37 -> 32 + 72 = 58 -> 52 + 82 = 89 -> 82 + 92 = 145 -> 12 + 42 + 52 = 42
Likely not worth noting in the article, but possibly of interest to others looking for numerical features of 42. -FeralDruid (talk) 18:09, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
For the record, I had nothing to do with it. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 01:00, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
I erased the entry about this because if you saw the movie, the president clearly asked Gates to look at page 47 not page 42. 5 May 19:06 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by RandomHero8 (talk • contribs) 19:06, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Why does someone keep on removing the line that says,
The exact value of the cosine of 42 degrees is , and the simplest polynomial with integer coefficients for which this is a root is believed to be 256x8 − 448x6 + 224x4 − 32x2 + 1?
The things to which this is relevant come up far more often than things to which much of the rest of the article is relevant, so why is most of the rest of the article intact while this is removed? 128.12.42.40 (talk) 02:42, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
It is a property of the number that ought to be listed, and it is definitely more interesting than things like the sixth moment of the Riemann zeta function, which, is still on shaky grounds. Anyway, I have just verified the simplicity satement, so I'm putting it back in. 128.12.41.37 (talk) 00:07, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Fine, the moment of the Riemann zeta function has been removed. It has even less of a reason to be here. 128.12.42.40 (talk) 02:42, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
The value of cos 42° doesn't really involve the number 42 but for the fact that we've chosen 1/360 of the full circle as our unit of measurement. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:26, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Inclusion of silly things like the above is questionable: notice that it depends crucially on the somewhat arbitrary choice of a base-10 numeral system, and just why it matters that the digits occupy particular positions in that numeral system (units, tens) rather than the fact being merely about the unodered pair of numbers {4,2} is not even hinted at. Yet someone removed the material on the zeta function that has had some press in refereed publications and is not just recreational trivia like the fact quoted above. I've restored the material on the zeta function. Michael Hardy (talk) 04:17, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
The PC game Spore has achievements, one of which is labeled '42' and to complete it, you have to "Find the center of the galaxy". I am sure someone with better linguistic skills than I can edit it for easy reading :). Snugg (talk) 05:19, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Im confused why 101010 is redirected to 42. ♣PrincessClown♥ 22:15, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
I think that it might be relevent that the 42nd question of the impossible quiz (http://www.notdoppler.com/theimpossiblequiz.php) should be included. It asks about the answer to the ultimate quuestion of life, the world et cetera. Maybe it should be included in the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy section of 42.
And it might help if you click on the link.Zheliel (talk) 09:15, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Is it interesting that Bill Clinton is the 42nd President of the United States? Or that George W. Bush was the 42nd person to be president (Due to Grover Clevelend being counted twice)? Tipto42 (talk) 06:33, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
needs to go or be explained in some form of context. If it really is the meaning of life, wikipedia has saved my soul. thuglasT|C 16:23, 31 March 2009 (UTC) on reconsideration im just deleting it EVERYONE knows that the number they are learning about is 42 because they had to get here somehow. thuglasT|C 16:34, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Does Scott Vollmer or the Arkon Colts actually exist? A quick Google search turned up nothing on either one. 70.88.213.74 (talk) 17:43, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
I removed references to 42 being a 15-gonal number, and being the sum of the totient function for the first 11 integers. Since this was reverted, I thought I'd explain.
I see nothing wrong with mentioning notable mathematical properties of a number. Many of the properties mentioned are notable, or at least borderline interesting, or even "meh... possibly someone might care enough to leave it in." For instance, the thing about the 8 digits of pi starting with the 242422th dighit being 42424242; from a mathematical point of view, that's a completely uninteresting property that only Daniken could love, but it's cute enough that someone might concievably find it interesting.
However, being a polygonal number is not notable, since every positive integer is one. Triangular numbers and square numbers are fine to mention, but 15-gonal numbers are definitely not.
Similarly, the bit about the sum of the first 11 integers in the totient function is complete nonsense. The totient function is not normally summed, and this is simply not an interesting property. You'll note that the sum of the first 10 integers in the totient function is 32, and the sum of the first 12 is 46, and you won't find this (utterly tedious) tidbit in the articles for either number, and quite rightly so.
I get the mystique, but could we not desperately add up numbers from all sorts of random mathmatical functions until we eventually somehow get 42, and then insert these pointless contortions into the article? --Ashenai (talk) 14:06, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
I disagree with the removal of this entry. French departments are indeed well known by their numbers, unlike most of the other geographical entities. Why wouldn't it belong here? Korg (talk) 02:05, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
From the above section:
"42 is the result given by the web search engines Google, Wolfram Alpha and Microsoft's Bing when the query "the answer to life the universe and everything" is entered as a search."
This actually belongs to section 5.1 "In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", since the result of the search is all about the HG. Agreed? Thanks Kvsh5 (talk) 15:23, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
The first (ARPA) Host Name Server Protocol, see rfc1011 specification IEN 116. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPA_Host_Name_Server_Protocol
This service listens on TCP port 42. If you ask it a "question" (domain name), it will give you an answer (ip address).
The common word for "42" in Hebrew is "Arbayim-Ve-Shtayim" (ארבעים ושתיים), and not "Mem-Bet" like it is written here. "Mem-Bet" is usually only used by religious people, and even then it's only when they are talking about Jewish stuff. I never use that kind of counting and I am Israeli. --Sharnav (talk) 16:55, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
There was a change to [[Hebrew numerals|Hebrew]]
from:
מב (Mem Bet)
to:
ארבעים ושתיים (Arbayim Ve Shtayim)
I'm thinking this might be a change equivalent to changing "42" to "forty-two".
What is the standard on this? Maybe there should be both.
Obankston (talk) 19:37, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
I have fixed the mistake concerning how 42 is written in Serbian. It wrote "četiridesetdva" which translates literaly as 4-10-2, which is incorrect. I have corrected this and wrote it in cyrillic because, although the use both cyrillic and latin letters, the official letters of Serbian language are cyrillic letters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.189.241.35 (talk) 00:54, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Dear Colleagues,
There is an ongoing discussion on the organization of number pages and number disambiguation pages.
Your comments would be much appreciated!! Please see and participate in:
Thank you for your participation!
Cheers,
PolarYukon (talk) 15:02, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, but the Dates paragraph doesn't bring any information, the ones written down there are as important to me as would be 1542, 942, 442 or any one else. If these are important, why isn't there a link to the correspondant date in History, or at least a small description phrase ? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.128.13.172 (talk) 12:25, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
4,200,000,000 is not directly related to 42! The number 4,200,000,000 being the top number of items in the game (stated at the term page) is due to a reason.
As you can see in [Long Integer], the range of 4-bytes (32bit) integers is −2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647 unsigned, or 0 to 4,294,967,295 unsigned. Therefore, the game was using a second-degree round to allow a maximum of 4.2e+9 items so it fits within its 32bit counter. Etamar (talk) 13:38, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure if it should be here or in the [The Answer to life] article, but shouldn't it be mentioned that 42 in the Hitchhiker context is a Non sequitur ? Joeywayne (talk) 19:05, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
Why - Joeywayne (talk) 15:33, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Hmm.. Since the question is unknown, and it might be a logical counterpart to '42'. Thanks. That was rather stupid of me. - Joeywayne (talk) 19:29, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Could 42 possibly be an alchemy reference? God is frequently associated with 7 and man is frequently associated with 6, so could this relate to hermetics? (Why: Lion X Lioness = Cub) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.55.103.145 (talk) 08:39, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
In the last instance in the "religion" section this "The sum of the squares of each of these numbers make 216" is completely random, if this is referring to the numbers 3,4,5,6,7,8,9 then the sum of their squares is 280 and not 216, we would have to remove the 8 to bring that to 216, but in that case 3+4+5+6+7+9=34 and not 42; correct me if I'm wrong anyway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.13.60.20 (talk) 03:25, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
The thing about 42 being the number of expected throws of a single die until two 6s show up successively.. How was this calculated? I can't find anything on Google that doesn't look like it was copied from Wikipedia. And why does it have to be 6s? Can't it be 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 as well? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.14.169.216 (talk) 19:09, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is "42" From the Movie Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy And How This Is To Be Is From This.
How the answer is calculated
it's simple. 42. A die has 6 sides- a 6,5,4,3,2,1. 6+5+4+3+2+1= 21 + another die = 42
The answer is to die ... TO DIE.
That's the joke. — Preceding unsigned comment added by En0ch911 (talk • contribs) 06:31, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
Grammatically correct, two of a game-related object called a die is 'two dice' (its plural form), technically either saying that the computer was not smart enough to know about plurals, or that theory is incorrect. Just saying. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.214.222.24 (talk) 23:03, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
The statement that the pop band Level 42 got it's name from Clockwork Orange appears to be a mistake. I suspect someone has confused Level 42 with a similar band of the same era, Heaven 17. The page for Level 42 gives no clue where the name came from. Not sure it's worth mentioning the band at all if we don't know where the name comes from.Lafong (talk) 23:42, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
I've tried to trim out all the trivial entries of the "In popular culture" section, and I think I've trimmed enough to remove the tag from the top of the section (The This "In popular culture" section may contain minor or trivial references. one), but I wanted to discuss it here before removing it. - SudoGhost™ 22:12, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
It should be said somewhere that 42 is the sum of the first 7 primes viz 1,2,3,5,7,11,13, This is especially relevant to the issue of the ultimate answer since God created the world in 7 days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alf Heben (talk • contribs) 15:50, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
I've never written for Wikipedia before so be gentle.
Last week I noticed that if the phrase "To Be" were numerically encoded using 'A=1 ... Z=26' then the answer is 42 (T(20) + o(15) + B(2) + e(5) = 42).
I'm not suggesting any cosmic significance just an interesting and provocative coincidence.
Abstractspoon (talk) 00:46, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
As of a few minutes ago, Wikipedia had 4,200,400 articles according to Special:Statistics.
It was probably April 2nd somewhere when we crossed the 4.2M article threshold. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 03:17, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
I have done some simple calculations, one came out with the letter U (42 = letter U), another DB (4 = D, 2 = B). Any suggestions? 124.120.114.154 (talk) 11:25, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
seem to have disappeared from the visible text of the article. Any ideas? — Arthur Rubin (talk) 18:21, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
There are a lot of unsubstantiated claims on this page. Half of them have no reference! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ultan42 (talk • contribs) 00:04, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
Assuming a uniformly-dense spherical Earth, all straight-line frictionless trips take 42.177 minutes. Unfortunately, the density of the Earth is extremely non-uniform, being about 4 times greater at the middle than at the surface.
By my count, "the answer to life, the universe and everything is" has 50 characters. Am I missing something? It's been a long time since I read Hitchhiker's Guide. Laurasbadideas (talk) 09:48, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
In the final episode of Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent attempts to channel the solution to Deep Thought's calculation hidden within in his primate brain by randomly selecting letters one at a time from a bag of Scrabble letters and placing them on a Scrabble board.
The result of this, as depicted in the last episode of the BBC television series, spells 'FOURTY' horizontally, and 'TWO' vertically, using the 'T' of FOURTY as the first letter of the second word.
In the television series image, this is done near the center of the Scrabble board. However, if you replace the "Y" with a blank, and place the T at the vertex of the triple word score position at the top of the scrabble board, (and also ignore the double letter score for the 'F'), what you get is:
'F'(4) + 'O'(1) + 'U'(1) + 'R'(1) + 'T'(1) + 'BLANK'(0) = 8 x 3 = 24, and 'T'(1) + 'W'(4) + 'O'(1) = 6 x 3 = 18, and 24 + 18 = 42
Notice that the letter 'Y' (WHY?) must be "BLANK". In other words, there is no 'Y' (WHY?) to the question associated with Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Scrabble is unique as a game because it is the only game which closely associates both letters and numbers in skilled play. Symbols are quantitative (numbers) and letters are tokens of meaning, the only symbols used as tools by finite minds to assimilate infinitesimal bits of meaning from the whole of infinite truth, which is impossible for a finite mind such as ours to understand in its entirety.
This is, I think, pretty close to the meaning Adams intended to convey in HHG, the greatest work of his genius. Danshawen (talk)danshawen —Preceding undated comment added 04:19, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numbers#List of British bingo nicknames for a centralized discusion as to whether Bingo names should be included in thiese articles. Arthur Rubin (alternate) (talk) 23:34, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
This Connect Four set was from a mental ward in SCUH, Australia, between Jan and March 2019. At the time I thought that the meaning of life, etc, (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) was 42, and the question was "what's 6x7?". For some reason I thought I'd count the pieces and the result was unexpected. I wonder how often sets are like this - 1 in 1000? And it was the first time I'd ever tried counting the pieces. There should be 21 of each because tied games are possible.
Zephyr103 (talk) 03:46, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
I am doing a similar round-robin analysis, and my answer is different. Since there is no external links for validations, is there anyone here with mathematical background so that we can verify this statement: ″It is the number of isomorphism classes of all simple and oriented directed graphs on 4 vertices. In other words, it is the number of all possible outcomes (up to isomorphism) of a tournament consisting of 4 teams where the game between any pair of teams results in three possible outcomes: the first team wins, the second team wins, or there is a draw. The group stage of the FIFA World cup is a good example″. My answer is 40, by the way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Long Doan (talk • contribs) 11:49, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
Rank | Win | Draw | Lose |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
4 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
which in my calculation treated both the same (in fact, if we give points for winning larger or equal than n, hence both OESIS sequence I gave you agree with the answer 40). However, if we need to have a deep tournament analysis, G32 and G34 are indeed very differences. And actually, your (and the current method) are much more useful for round-robin tournament analysis, since separating G32 and G34 reveals more information (I gave the confusing UEFA tournaments example, to clarify, UEFA tournaments first tie-break is head-to-head result (team with better result in head-to-head match is ranked higher). If we merge both G32 and G34, we cannot sure whether the match between second and third place is decisive and need to look up the exact match to check whether the second-place ranked higher than the third-place. However, if we keep the separated results, if we know our tournament falls in the case G34, we can surely know the second team ranked higher than the third team. Again, thank you very much for looking up to the problem and answer all my questions. I am really clear now!Long Doan (talk) 15:24, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
The transcript for the television adaptation has the following:
The shoe, it was discovered on the bus with a number 42.
Now, that bus, I believe, passes close by.
That bus goes to the hospital.
Notably, the number is not mentioned in the novel. --Lmstearn (talk) 12:53, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
The following error message is in red following the phrase "42 is the smallest number such that for every Riemann surface of genus"
Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "http://localhost:6011/en.wikipedia.org/v1/":): {\displaystyle \#\text{Aut}(C) \leq k\ \text{deg}(K_{C})=k(2g-2)} Dlcarlson (talk) 20:52, 26 February 2024 (UTC)