The Meaning of Life is 42
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Steve Raw wrote:
What do you think? Is the meaning of life 42?
More interesting to ask what then is the meaning of '-42'. And even more so what is the meaning of the square root of '-42'.
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Interesting. I don't know if I'll ever figure that one out. Is '-42' a string, or an integer? It's not easy to find the square root of a negative integer. It's even more difficult to find the square root of a string. I'm at a loss.
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Many years ago, I read that the meaning of life is 42. I didn't understand the answer and pondered it up until about a year ago. I discovered something amazing. I now understand why the meaning of life is 42, and what the answer means. I think the answer is so clever that it's almost brilliant. It explains everything. What do you think? Is the meaning of life 42?
Steve Raw wrote:
What do you think? Is the meaning of life 42?
Look up the ASCII code for an asterisk (wildcard) and you shall have your answer.
Jeremy Falcon
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yacCarsten wrote:
Its just the question can't co-exist in the same universe. :)
First off, I love your signature. That's so funny! Your reply reminds me of when I asked chatGPT if nothing exists. I forget the answer that I got, but it was somewhat lame and incomplete. I believe that nothing doesn't exist. If nothing exists, then it's no longer nothing. If nothing becomes something, it ceases to be nothing. Right?
Steve Raw wrote:
I believe that nothing doesn't exist. If nothing exists, then it's no longer nothing. If nothing becomes something, it ceases to be nothing. Right?
You haven't seen the neverending story, have you? :rolleyes: :-D
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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42
liquid nitrogen
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Steve Raw wrote:
What do you think? Is the meaning of life 42?
Look up the ASCII code for an asterisk (wildcard) and you shall have your answer.
Jeremy Falcon
I was starting to think: "cool, looks like nobody thought of that"... then I got to your message (last one as I read the thread) :doh: :doh: :doh: :sigh: :sigh: :sigh: Killjoy ;P :laugh:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Agreed. It is hilarious! I think I just might take you up on that suggestion. The last time I read the book was in college, but had no time to read it fully. If only I could stop programming, but I can't. If I can't write code, my body goes into withdrawal. I curl up in the corner of my room wearing only my underwear while I rock back and forth sweating profusely.
So, read one chapter before you go to sleep? Technically, it would be a bedtime story. It would help relax and write better code. Just a dumb idea :)
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Steve Raw wrote:
What do you think? Is the meaning of life 42?
Look up the ASCII code for an asterisk (wildcard) and you shall have your answer.
Jeremy Falcon
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liquid nitrogen
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Steve Raw wrote:
I believe that nothing doesn't exist. If nothing exists, then it's no longer nothing. If nothing becomes something, it ceases to be nothing. Right?
You haven't seen the neverending story, have you? :rolleyes: :-D
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
Nelek wrote:
You haven't seen the neverending story, have you? :rolleyes: :-D
I saw it as a kid, but I don't really remember anything about it. A Google result explains something about the main antagonist known as "The Nothing". Referring to something that is nothing by using the word 'the' turns Nothing into something. That something is a noun. This means nothing is a person, place, or thing. If something that's nothing is a thing, then it can't be nothing, because all things are something and no things are nothing. Right?
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Nelek wrote:
You haven't seen the neverending story, have you? :rolleyes: :-D
I saw it as a kid, but I don't really remember anything about it. A Google result explains something about the main antagonist known as "The Nothing". Referring to something that is nothing by using the word 'the' turns Nothing into something. That something is a noun. This means nothing is a person, place, or thing. If something that's nothing is a thing, then it can't be nothing, because all things are something and no things are nothing. Right?
I don't know what you have smoked... but I definitivelly want a bit :rolleyes: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I think you'd need to get the mice to build a bigger computer[^] to work out what the question is first.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
In Life, The Universe and Everything, it was worked out as "What is 6 by 9?" And yeah, it doesn't make sense. That's Douglas Adams for you. He was hilarious though.
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yacCarsten wrote:
Its just the question can't co-exist in the same universe. :)
First off, I love your signature. That's so funny! Your reply reminds me of when I asked chatGPT if nothing exists. I forget the answer that I got, but it was somewhat lame and incomplete. I believe that nothing doesn't exist. If nothing exists, then it's no longer nothing. If nothing becomes something, it ceases to be nothing. Right?
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First off, I love your signature.
Thanks. It was going to be a running gag by adding something to it every now and then. But I can't be bothered. :-O
// TODO: Insert something here
Top ten reasons why I'm lazy 1.
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In Life, The Universe and Everything, it was worked out as "What is 6 by 9?" And yeah, it doesn't make sense. That's Douglas Adams for you. He was hilarious though.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
honey the codewitch wrote:
And yeah, it doesn't make sense
It does in base13
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Many years ago, I read that the meaning of life is 42. I didn't understand the answer and pondered it up until about a year ago. I discovered something amazing. I now understand why the meaning of life is 42, and what the answer means. I think the answer is so clever that it's almost brilliant. It explains everything. What do you think? Is the meaning of life 42?
It is 101010
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honey the codewitch wrote:
And yeah, it doesn't make sense
It does in base13
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Base 13 makes sense if you have polydactylism, with 6 fingers on each hand, and you are a man.
Feeling sorry for the Babylonians then. And Danes as well.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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That is a matter of term definition. One can even frame it in set theory. In set theory I can have a set with 'A' and 'B'.
{A, B}
In set theory one can also have an empty set. It looks like the following
{}
However one still then has that set - the empty one. So conceptually one can then argue that there is in fact something. So one should remove that set as well. That argument is not realistic however because despite not stating it as such one is implicitly assuming another set - the one that contains the empty set. If it was not in fact contained in something then it would not be possible to remove it. That is the same as the 'nothing' argument. What exactly are you removing 'nothing' from? I would compare that to statements/questions about what was 'before' the Big Bang. That very statement however is false because time only exists in the universe. So there cannot be a 'before'. One would need to redefine time (in an actual consistent way) to allow one to even to ask the question.
You have no tea. (Infocom HGTTG reference.)
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Interesting. I don't know if I'll ever figure that one out. Is '-42' a string, or an integer? It's not easy to find the square root of a negative integer. It's even more difficult to find the square root of a string. I'm at a loss.
