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

Entry: The Number Forty Two (42) - A846434
Author: Vercingetorix(UG Miner : Now the best thing since sliced bread) - U201249

Does this have a place here?

It'd be nice to see it in the UnderGuide... but well I don't have a say in that.

Seriously I don't.

I'd be nice to feature it on February 11 - the 42nd day of the year

Now all I need to do is attract a picker...

Ah its like the good old days of peer review

'Here, picker picker picker...'

"how many cards there are in a deck when the dog had managed to get hold of the deck the night before and has decided to eat ten of them." ->
"how many cards there are in the deck when the dog managed to get hold of them the night before and decided to eat ten."?

infinate -> infinite

alot -> a lot

"It basically about" -> It is basically about

been shown -> appeared? (you don't tend to show radio )

"And that turned out to be the Earth. Of course blowing up the Earth, before it could finish was a bit of a pain to the Mice." ->

"That machine turned out to be the Earth. Of course blowing up the Earth 5 minutes before it could finish its task was a bit of a pain to the Mice."?

My which you can take or leave as you like, other than that I like the entry Plus Argon0 will be pleased if it gets officiated!

Mel

http://www.empirenet.com/~dljones/

Has some interesting things about the number 42. You may need to check them to find out how realistic they are as some of them sound a little iffy and some of them are just plain silly but it would be a good start for some more background details on 42. So I wouldn't just lift the list from the page! (other than for the obvious copyrite reasons)

You might also like to add that DNA chose the number at random and that it haunted him ever since because he chose what can only be described as a 'useful' number for programmers. It has many factors (1,2,3,6,7,12,14,21 & 42) as well as being the easily spottable binary number 0010 1010 (though to be honest I tend to use 1010 1010 or 170d since this a byte in length!)

Mel