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Comment by bambax

15 hours ago

(Also: 42 is the answer to everything because it's the ascii code for *).

Was that a happy coincidence or intentional?

  • Perfectly pure happiness:

    "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 thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story." from the man himself[1]

    ...but let us not ruin a good story with the truth. Remember why earth was built. The "real" answer might then be flowing in the ether.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27...

  • I think it was intentional but I don't have a source.

    Edit: from the other comment, it appears it was in fact random...