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why adams chose 42 as answer to the question of life, universe and eveything?
tnargs Posted Apr 22, 2006
Does it matter? Does anything? I know it's a bit Marvin, but 42 sounds good and if nothing else gives people something to think about when they have nothing else to do.
why adams chose 42 as answer to the question of life, universe and eveything?
generaleddins Posted Apr 26, 2006
My guess is because L. Frank Baum already used Oz.
why adams chose 42 as answer to the question of life, universe and eveything?
AnarchistDuck Posted Apr 26, 2006
i think to ask this question is to miss the whole point.
why adams chose 42 as answer to the question of life, universe and eveything?
visualprincess_mel Posted Jun 1, 2006
The number 42 had no other significance in Douglas's life other than that it was his age when his daughter Polly was born.
Ref: Douglas Adams biography page on this site. 
why adams chose 42 as answer to the question of life, universe and eveything?
DavidFerry Posted Jun 3, 2006
Easy:
HE WAS DRUNK
It is a random number he chose while drunk.
Nothing to do with multiplying or anything like that.
However, scientists do beleive now that Adams might have been right!
why adams chose 42 as answer to the question of life, universe and eveything?
AntonZdz Posted Jun 4, 2006
Perhaps he liked the numbers 7 and 6?
why adams chose 42 as answer to the question of life, universe and eveything?
Bohemond Posted Oct 24, 2011
The book answers it doesnt i? The earth is built as an attempt to ask the right question. 42 is meaningless so you can always find clever reasons for it, which are equally meaningless, oh, and lets face it, it is a bloody good joke, when the book came out, everybody was saying 42 in answer to absolutely everything. This is why Douglas Adams was so brilliant and clever and funny. We are descended from the B ark.
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