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Do you think that is where DNA got his "42" from?
ArrrghBob Started conversation Mar 22, 2005
I can't believe this. I thought of this very idea on my own when I was in highschool. No one has ever given it any credence what-so-ever, and here it is a famous mental invention. I guess I'm not as smart as I thought I was. I didn't know about the 42 minutes though.
Do you think that is where DNA got his "42" from?
FordsTowel Posted Jun 27, 2005
Sorry not to have responded Bob. YES, I am ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that this is where DNA got the 42 from. 
Unless of course, he took maths and learned that 1+5*8+1 (6x9)= 42.
Do you think that is where DNA got his "42" from?
freshvolk Posted Apr 2, 2007
Actually 1+5*8+1 is not 6*9 because you solve it like this 1+(5*8)+1 the real equation would be (1+5)*(1+8) or
"(1+1+1+1+1+1)*(1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1) = (6*9) = 42"
which, coincidentaly, has the same number of carachters as
"the answer to life the universe and everything"
of course you already knew that but hey i thought it was worth commenting on.
____If the future is impossible to grasp, it must be pretty big____
Do you think that is where DNA got his "42" from?
FordsTowel Posted Jul 4, 2007
Mea culpa! Me forgot me parentheses!
Come to think of it, I may have found that particular formula on the site of the person to whom I was responding!?!?
The moral of the story, "Always do your own math". 
PS: Speaking of the ultimate answer, have you figured out the ultimate question??
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