A Conversation for The Myth Of 42 [(5-3+0+5) * (6+0) = 42]
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the_league_against_helium (see A816996 and A823448) Started conversation Aug 19, 2002
Hi!
New user, new 42ism...
(2+0!)*(0!+8+4+0!)=42 methinks.
Not exactly imaginative, but then I should really be doing other things anyway: 
Bye bye!
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Dec 8, 2002
Well....
You could also have...
Recip(2) * (0+0+84+0) = 42...
(If I allowed Reciprocals that is...)
OR
2+ (0!+0!+8)x4 = 42
Or a DNAism
(2+0!)! x (0 + 8 + 4^0) = 42 DNA Stylee...
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the_league_against_helium (see A816996 and A823448) Posted Dec 9, 2002
Please don't get me started on this again, Argon0! This is just the sort of infuriatingly addictive non-work that I'm particularly susceptible to on hootoo. Oh no... I can feel it all starting again... I haven't done it for my EG entries grrrrrrr... 
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Potholer Posted Dec 13, 2002
Avoiding factorials, but using the double-digit rule gives
2+0*0*8+40 (or even 2+00*8+40)
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Potholer Posted Dec 15, 2002
I'm afraid my programming gets the credit, rather than my mathematics.
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Dec 16, 2002
still....
Good Programming then...
('ang on don't 
s come out of stills.....)
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Jeremy (trying to find his way back to dinner) Posted Feb 27, 2003
... or (with a 3-digit part, which I really like)
20^-0!*840 = 42
I'm not quite shure about the brackets, so here's the same thing again:
20^(-(0!))*840 = 42
Jeremy
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Oct 17, 2003
Welcome, the_league_against_helium, to the s of the DoQuaDecaGonic table...
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- 1: the_league_against_helium (see A816996 and A823448) (Aug 19, 2002)
- 2: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Dec 8, 2002)
- 3: the_league_against_helium (see A816996 and A823448) (Dec 9, 2002)
- 4: Potholer (Dec 13, 2002)
- 5: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Dec 15, 2002)
- 6: Potholer (Dec 15, 2002)
- 7: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Dec 16, 2002)
- 8: Jeremy (trying to find his way back to dinner) (Feb 27, 2003)
- 9: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Oct 17, 2003)
- 10: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Oct 17, 2003)
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