A Conversation for The Number Forty Two (42)
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DaRC (cook, cocktail maker, cyclist ) Started conversation Oct 9, 2002
meaning of Life, The Universe & Everything 
In Robert Graves "The White Goddess" he goes into great detail about the Greek/Hebrew view of numerology. Each number in the alphabet has a value. Certain values are magical/special.
Now before we get into a complete Monty Python sketch I just want to say...
"Jehovah" 
What does this mean you say. Well the Hebrew (or was it the Greek) for Jehovah was Yahweh. For some convoluted reason they remove the vowels. So you end up with YHWH or JHVH. If you take the numerology of this term for God (i.e. Life, The Universe & Everything) you come up with 42!!
You have to hand to Douglas Adams 
when he had a joke it was on several levels.
Right after all this my 
and I need a 
.
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Alex A (Keeper of 7) Posted Oct 11, 2002
Also in binary (base 2), 42 (base 10) is expressed as 101010 
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Terran Posted Oct 15, 2002
There must be loads of ways of doing that... hmm, must think about that one.
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WilburWhateley Posted Oct 16, 2006
Many levels indeed!
6x9=42 in base 13. Is reality bad luck?
I think maybe it is. 
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