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Eric Peterson epeterso at houligan.encore.com
Thu Oct 11 06:11:39 AEST 1990


jar at ifi.uio.no (Jo Are Rosland) writes:


| In article <2721 at idunno.Princeton.EDU>, subbarao at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) writes:
| > Nope -- If you are referring to Douglas Adams' 
| > ``The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', the answer is 42.
| > 
| > The question is revealed in ``Life, the Universe and Everything'' --
| > 
| > What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
| 
| I get 54, why do you ask :-)

But did you know that 6 times 9 *is* 42 in base 13?

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