A Conversation for The Myth Of 42 [(5-3+0+5) * (6+0) = 42]
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wee tim'rous beastie Started conversation Apr 3, 2002
I have watched with amusement the ingenuity with which humans have calculated 42 in base 10. Mouses, this the favoured spelling, however use base 13 so 6 times 9 is 42 and it was thought that all your calculations are irrelevant/incorrect. How we squeaked with laughter. Now it would seem that we were mistaken all along. Recently Fermouses Lost Theorem has been found, it states that the first number generated after the Big Bang was 36 and if this is translated into your base 10 the answer is 42. SPOOKY!
It may interest you to know that because mouses are the only intelligent beings with tails the mousian numbering system, base 13, is the only one in the universe that uses an odd number for its base which leads to some very interesting theorems in number theory.
Unfortunately all this information was stored in the ancient Alexandrine Mouseion(or library; see Hypatia of Alexandria A481006) which was accidentally burnt down whenthe mouses set fire to a cats tail.
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Apr 16, 2002
So how many Tails did Mouses have originally? Or do you/we also use your Whiskers?
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MotDoc, Temporarily Exiled to Tartu, Estonia Posted Nov 9, 2002
This is most certainly a false claim. Anyone who has actually read the BOOK (not the awful movie) Battlefield Earth knows that the storyline actually relies on a rather interesting base-11 counting system. Actually I misspoke...obviously one can't actually read an awful movie. Unless you read the script in which case your brain might simply melt.
-Master of the Dojo
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Dec 13, 2002
Quite.
Battlefield Earth is a book by that arch nutter (sorry scientologist) L. Ron Hubbard, which I have refused to read for idealogical reasons...
i.e. its crap... (probably) 
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