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42 is a natural number with various properties and meanings in mathematics, science, religion, and popular culture. Learn about its factorization, divisors, abundancy, Catalan number, Smith number, magic cube, and its role in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Sep 21, 2020 · Take author Douglas Adams’s popular 1979 science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the first in a series of five. Toward the end of the book, the supercomputer Deep Thought...
Sep 10, 2019 · A team of mathematicians led by Andrew Sutherland of MIT and Andrew Booker of Bristol University has found a solution for the elusive number 42 in the equation x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = 42. The project used a worldwide network of over 400,000 volunteers' PCs and was inspired by Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
- Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert died aged 42; they had 42 grandchildren and their great-grandson, Edward VIII, abdicated at the age of 42.
- The world's first book printed with movable type is the Gutenberg Bible which has 42 lines per page.
- On page 42 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry discovers he's a wizard.
- The first time Douglas Adams essayed the number 42 was in a sketch called "The Hole in the Wall Club". In it, comedian Griff Rhys Jones mentions the 42nd meeting of the Crawley and District Paranoid Society.
May 25, 2016 · Learn how the number 42 became a symbol of life's inscrutability in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and other works by Douglas Adams. Find out why fans celebrate Towel Day and what it means to live well and always remember your towel.
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Jan 10, 2024 · So wrote Douglas Adams back in 1979, and the galaxy has been pondering it ever since. We know the Answer is 42, but what we really need is an answer to the question of what the Question was...
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In March 2021, Unbound announced a crowdfunder for 42: the wildly improbable ideas of Douglas Adams, on the 20th anniversary of his death, a book based on Adams's papers, edited by Kevin Jon Davies. The annual Douglas Adams Memorial Lectures began in 2003. Awards and nominations
