Now I finally know where 42 is coming from!
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Long there was a question as to what could be the ultimate question!? (whose answer is 42, I shall remind) Well today I am coming with a possible answer! Could it simply be a Button's EffectiveValuesInitialSize ? http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#PresentationFramework/Framework/System/Windows/Controls/Button.cs,b0ff6b5075f3337b[^] Just a possibility! :rolleyes:
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Apparently only one person knows the answer and that is Stephen Fry Personally I think it was just because 42 is inherently amusing as in 2 for tea
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Stephen Fry knows! Damn! :omg: He must disclose it now!
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No, it's "what do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?" It's also Fox Mulder's apartment number, and that's the truth...
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It's also Fox Mulder's apartment number, and that's the truth...
Is it now? The truth is out there! :omg:
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Stephen Fry knows! Damn! :omg: He must disclose it now!
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There's a hidden joke as 6 x 9 is 42 in base 13. I've always understood this to be part of what Douglas Adams intended. Of course, it might be just that he come up with random numbers and base 13 fits!
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21 You take out 21, you have 21 you took out.
Jeremy Falcon
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21 You take out 21, you have 21 you took out.
Jeremy Falcon
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Long there was a question as to what could be the ultimate question!? (whose answer is 42, I shall remind) Well today I am coming with a possible answer! Could it simply be a Button's EffectiveValuesInitialSize ? http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#PresentationFramework/Framework/System/Windows/Controls/Button.cs,b0ff6b5075f3337b[^] Just a possibility! :rolleyes:
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no, it comes from my CP ID #
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There's a hidden joke as 6 x 9 is 42 in base 13. I've always understood this to be part of what Douglas Adams intended. Of course, it might be just that he come up with random numbers and base 13 fits!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
There are quite literally hundreds of theories. Like... The sum of the numbers on a die is 21 The answer to life is to die (two die) (which should, of course, be two dice anyway!) Douglas Adams said
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"The answer to this is very simple, it was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base 13, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat on my desk, stared in to the garden and thought 42 will do. I typed it out. End of story."
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"I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in Base 13."
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no, it comes from my CP ID #
Oh really? It's a very personalized answer! :rolleyes: :laugh:
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There's a hidden joke as 6 x 9 is 42 in base 13. I've always understood this to be part of what Douglas Adams intended. Of course, it might be just that he come up with random numbers and base 13 fits!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Long there was a question as to what could be the ultimate question!? (whose answer is 42, I shall remind) Well today I am coming with a possible answer! Could it simply be a Button's EffectiveValuesInitialSize ? http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#PresentationFramework/Framework/System/Windows/Controls/Button.cs,b0ff6b5075f3337b[^] Just a possibility! :rolleyes:
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Don't think about this too much more
//Husband age
int hage;
//Wife age
int wage;
Debug.WriteLine("The sum of their age is " + (hage + wage).ToString()+" at the year of marriage in the 18th century");
//The sum of their age is 42 at the year of marriage in the 18th centuryDo you see the 42, now you know where it's comming from ;) .
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There are quite literally hundreds of theories. Like... The sum of the numbers on a die is 21 The answer to life is to die (two die) (which should, of course, be two dice anyway!) Douglas Adams said
Quote:
"The answer to this is very simple, it was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base 13, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat on my desk, stared in to the garden and thought 42 will do. I typed it out. End of story."
and also
Quote:
"I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in Base 13."
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Which is why, of course, I said:
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Of course, it might be just that he come up with random numbers and base 13 fits!
I lived through the whole Paul McCartney is dead conspiracy. I tend to believe only what I witness firsthand!
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He apparently "gazed into the garden, scratched, listened to the birds, then wrote 42". I suspect there was a time-traveller wearing a camo suit in his garden with a MindRay 3000.
It may have been an Inspiron (Terry Pratchett)!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Long there was a question as to what could be the ultimate question!? (whose answer is 42, I shall remind) Well today I am coming with a possible answer! Could it simply be a Button's EffectiveValuesInitialSize ? http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#PresentationFramework/Framework/System/Windows/Controls/Button.cs,b0ff6b5075f3337b[^] Just a possibility! :rolleyes:
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I'm sorry. None of you are being sufficiently cosmic. So, just for the sake of the season: In Genesis, '6' is the number of man (the day man was created). '7' is the number of God. 6 x 7 = 42, so the answer is god elaborated as man: namely, the little baby Jesus!!!!! Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Long there was a question as to what could be the ultimate question!? (whose answer is 42, I shall remind) Well today I am coming with a possible answer! Could it simply be a Button's EffectiveValuesInitialSize ? http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#PresentationFramework/Framework/System/Windows/Controls/Button.cs,b0ff6b5075f3337b[^] Just a possibility! :rolleyes:
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Isn't it just the ASCII/Unicode/UTF-8 code for the asterisk?
