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Researcher 181605 Started conversation Aug 1, 2001
When Arthur Dent pull out "What do you get when you multiply six by nine" he dismissed the question as wrong. However, he was assuming than the numbers were in base 10. If you use base 13 then 6*9 does indeed = 42 (54/13 = 4 remainder 2).
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