A Conversation for The Myth Of 42 [(5-3+0+5) * (6+0) = 42]
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Researcher 208309 Started conversation Sep 4, 2003
...pref by a feisty redhead in short skirt and black boots wielding a sharp pointy thing.
I submit (-2+0+8)*(-3+0!+9) = 42. Are there extra points for them being in the right order and for using 0!?
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Jeremy (trying to find his way back to dinner) Posted Sep 4, 2003
Yes, you get 42 extra points (just like anybody else) 
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Potholer Posted Sep 4, 2003
Avoiding factorials, there's
(2+0*8)*(30-9) => 42
or the similar
2*(0*8+30-9) => 42
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Researcher 208309 Posted Sep 5, 2003
but I like factorials!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Researcher 208309 Posted Sep 6, 2003
I don’t think Mr Thorpe would have allowed making 30 out of 3 and 0, tempting though it might be.
Mr Thorpe was a mild mannered old buffer, ex of Nottingham Boys’ High School who for some reason found himself for a term or two thrown into the bear pit of Beeston Fields County Secondary School. I’m back in the 1950s now – 1957 to be precise, Class 3A in the kitchen block.
He tried to keep us quiet by challenging us to form equations from any set of four numbers he wrote up on the black board. Happy days. It was Mr Thorpe that came to mind when I was playing with my researcher number.
It was he that told us of perfect numbers about which I must do a Guide Entry one day. It was with the factors of 42 (not a perfect number, whatever its other qualities) that I began my quest earlier in the week.
(-2+0+8)*(-3+0!+9)
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Pimms Posted Sep 6, 2003
Surprised to find there isn't an entry on Perfect numbers already. Fill that gap in the guide! 
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Sep 30, 2003
Well done Boring Bear - yeah !'s are cool....
Did anybody else call 4! "Four Shriek" when at school?
Welcome to the Knights of the DoQuaDecahedric table...
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AK - fancy that! Posted Sep 30, 2003
did I here gap in the guide?
its A1293365
I'll put it on there... if need be... yeah I guess I will
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Oct 3, 2003
My mistake - wrong table - you should be at the DoQuaDecaGONIC table - over there...
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AK - fancy that! Posted Oct 3, 2003
You knwo a 42 sided polyhedric table would be pretty cool... just to look at... but its better as a polygon.
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Oct 6, 2003
Yeah, but tricky to sit at ...
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Oct 10, 2003
wonder if that'd be 3D or 42D?
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AK - fancy that! Posted Oct 10, 2003
3D... 42D would be
1.point
2.line
3.plane
4.up and down
5-42 dunno
but we could imagine a 42 sided polyhedron, if we had the right shapes we could make one but no one knows how to put it together...
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Oct 14, 2003
Point is NO dimensional...
Line is 1D
Plane is 2D
3D - Up and Down and 2D
Time = 4D (e.g.)
5-42D = rolled up dimensions...
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- 1: Researcher 208309 (Sep 4, 2003)
- 2: Jeremy (trying to find his way back to dinner) (Sep 4, 2003)
- 3: Potholer (Sep 4, 2003)
- 4: Researcher 208309 (Sep 5, 2003)
- 5: Researcher 208309 (Sep 6, 2003)
- 6: Pimms (Sep 6, 2003)
- 7: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Sep 30, 2003)
- 8: AK - fancy that! (Sep 30, 2003)
- 9: Pimms (Oct 1, 2003)
- 10: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Oct 3, 2003)
- 11: AK - fancy that! (Oct 3, 2003)
- 12: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Oct 6, 2003)
- 13: AK - fancy that! (Oct 6, 2003)
- 14: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Oct 10, 2003)
- 15: AK - fancy that! (Oct 10, 2003)
- 16: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Oct 14, 2003)
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