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dark_xinos 04-05-2002 10:07 AM

what is the signifigance of the number 42?
 
As Steve once asked "what is the signifigance of the number 42?".

I do know the awsner... Does anyone else?

Gladeslasher 04-05-2002 01:40 PM

erm
 
erm erm? heh heh heh I kinda tried to forget my maths skills because it was the holidays.....hee..hee....GEEZ I GOTTA REVISE!!!! :dodgy: :eek: :fuzvamp: :fuzconf: :fuzsad:

Xavier 04-05-2002 01:45 PM

hmmmm I think it's like

6x9

dark_xinos 04-05-2002 01:48 PM

6x9 is 54... 6x7 is 42...

But thats not the right awnser anyway...

HINT!: Its not a mathamatic problem

mitsur 04-05-2002 01:53 PM

ummm...42?

Xavier 04-05-2002 01:54 PM

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Originally posted by dark_xinos
6x9 is 54... 6x7 is 42...
I know it's 54, but did you never saw "the hichicers guide to the galxy"? sorry for the orthograph

It's the awnser to The question: life, the universe and anything

dark_xinos 04-05-2002 03:59 PM

BINGO! Xavier wins 10.000 dollars!

"Saw" hitchhikers guide to the galexy? I read it man!

You're awnser is correct... but i was thinking "What is the mening of Life"... Wich the supercomputer earth was suposed to figure out before it got destroyed 5 minuets before it had figuerd it out, it was destroyed (our planet ) by some aliens so they could build a intergalatic highway...lol.

And "What is the mening of Life?"
Whell... 42! (ovecourse!)

Xavier 04-05-2002 04:11 PM

in the Tv séries The computer said: now you have to find the question... and the question was 9x6= ?

Gluk Schmuck 04-06-2002 09:50 AM

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Originally posted by dark_xinos
BINGO! Xavier wins 10.000 dollars!
Haha, lucky man!

RoN_Rancor 04-06-2002 10:59 PM

I read that book. What was it that the philosophers/mice/higher dimensional beings made-up to serve as a question? It was something like "How many paths can a man take?"

Danny 04-07-2002 11:14 PM

How many roads must a man walk down?

dark_xinos 04-08-2002 06:45 PM

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Originally posted by RoN_Rancor
I read that book. What was it that the philosophers/mice/higher dimensional beings made-up to serve as a question? It was something like "How many paths can a man take?"
Yes! Right! That was how it was...yes....And the awnser was 42 there also... must have been Duglas Adams lucky number... or age when he whroght it... For persenal momory ofcourse;) :D

Steve 04-08-2002 07:24 PM

42 was probably picked because it's such an odd number to be so important and it definatly wasn't his age seeing as he died last year at the age of 49 (I think) and the book was written in the late 70's and before then it was a radio play.

how many people are going to see the movie (if it ever comes out), buy the game (there is only one thing I've seen on this and that was almost a year ago), read "what about the salmon?". I personnaly will do all three.

Xavier 04-09-2002 05:01 AM

I saw infos about that game too.
it is supposed to come on Xbox.
But I know nothing more