h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

the answer being 42. Isn't that totally and completely obvious? It was to me. Sheesh.

--Lauren

ummm... no. 6 * 8 = 48. it's 6 * 7. 42. this is also interesting because on page 306 of "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide" collection, near the end of the book "The Restaurant at The End of The Universe", Arthur Dent is pulling Scrabble tiles which spell out: What do you get when you multiply six by nine? he says the answer is 42 when it is in fact 54. the book goes on to say that the real answer and question would in fact cancel each other out, bringing about the total disappearance of existence and replacing it with something even more strange and hard to explain. this may have already happened.

No, you average 7 and 9 because 2 different sources said the different things, and you get 8????<?><?><?><?><?><?>

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Surely 6 X 9 is the question (thus God had to apologise for the inconvenience), and when Slartibartfast's computer computed this via APD's mind the universe did slip,which is why Fenchurch hovered?

The only Glitch I can see there is that APD was descended, not from Homo Neandothol, as intended, but from Homo Sapiens who landed on Earth, and in fact from himself.

People,
The Question is what is 6 x 9.

The answer is 42.

Who says it has to be base 10?

The question (small q) is if DA knew this? And if so why he picked such an unlucky number?

The question is "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?". The answer 42 is explained by the fact that Deep Thought was running code with order of precedence problems, see http://www.cafepress.com/the_answer for the code deep thought was running.

douglas himself admitted that the number 42 was a random nu,ber and had no significance, however, 6 multiplied by 9 is actually 42 in base 13.

Also, and irrelevant useless fact The Kumars at 42 was named as such from the author's love of adams' work.

But we commonly use base 10... how unlucky.