Stockholm • The episode Fit the Twentieth of the radio series features a personal computer OS booting sound (à la The Microsoft Sound) set to the tune of "Share and Enjoy". Jordan • Kuwait • {\displaystyle n=42} Istanbul, AEST • ( South Africa • "), in that the latter would equal "42" if calculated in base 13. Irkutsk • Arthur pulls random letters from a bag, but only gets the sentence "What do you get if you multiply six by nine? The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation tends to produce inherently faulty goods, which renders the statement ironic since few people would want to "Share and Enjoy" something that was defective. 1 ( Our math solver supports basic math, pre-algebra, algebra, trigonometry, calculus and more. ) After mice, the second most intelligent species on Earth were the dolphins. Cairo • Also, the video features flying dolphins in reference to HHGTTG. This led to news articles claiming they may have found the meaning of life. Sri Lanka • The "Share and Enjoy" tune also is used in the TV series as the backing for a Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robot commercial (slogan: "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!"). This is closely related to the fact that the largest triangle that tiles the Hyperbolic plane has angles π/2, π/3, and π/7. Many theories were proposed, including that 42 is 101010 in base-2 binary code, that light refracts through a water surface by 42 degrees to create a rainbow, or that light requires 10−42 seconds to cross the diameter of a proton. [49] "It is said that despite its many glaring (and occasionally fatal) inaccuracies, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy itself has outsold the Encyclopedia Galactica because it is slightly cheaper, and because it has the words 'DON'T PANIC' in large, friendly letters on the cover. Halifax • AWST • Ethiopia • If it ever does, it means that TIFF has changed in some way so radical that a TIFF reader should give up immediately. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. And that is how he arrived at the number 42, completely at random. 2 Brisbane • The puzzle is an illustration consisting of 42 multi-coloured balls, in 7 columns and 6 rows. Solomon Islands • Shortly after, the Earth is destroyed in all existing incarnations. ", a lyric from Bob Dylan's song "Blowin' in the Wind". * Updated: Season 3 - EP. Western European Time (WET) • Central European Time (CET) • Eastern European Time (EET) • London • which seeks to express every number between 1 and 100 as the sum of three cubes. [19] Another common guess is that 42 refers to the number of laws in cricket, a recurring theme of the books.[20]. AEDT • ACDT • ACST • [32] Rumours that mathematicians are grey mice have been disproved, however. Somebody who can stay in control of virtually any situation is somebody who is said to know where their towel is. Beijing • 7 Japan • on the radio show Book Club, Adams explained that he was "on his way to work one morning, whilst still writing the scene, and was thinking about what the actual answer should be. The Guide relates that the words "Share and Enjoy" were displayed in illuminated letters three miles high near the Sirius Cybernetics Complaints Division, until their weight caused them to collapse through the underground offices of many young executives. Bogota • Taiwan • − Manaus • Therefore, the question in Arthur's subconscious was invalid all along.[5]. Amsterdam • [43], The Hitchhiker knitting pattern, designed by Martina Behm, is a scarf with 42 teeth. [citation needed], The phrase was also spoofed for the All Time Low track "So Long, and Thanks for All the Booze", from the appropriately-titled album Don't Panic. 1 John Lloyd, Adams' collaborator on The Meaning of Liff and two Hitchhiker's fits, said that Adams has called 42 "the funniest of the two-digit numbers."[16]. The computer is revealed as being the planet Earth, with its pan-dimensional creators assuming the form of white lab mice to observe its running. Puerto Rico • The OpenSUSE team decided the next version will be based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and named "Leap 42". − Douglas Adams was asked many times why he chose the number 42. Omsk • St Petersburg • Miami • [7], Some readers who were trying to find a deeper meaning in the passage soon noticed a certain veracity when using base-13; 613 × 913 is actually 4213 (as (4 × 13) + 2 = 54, i.e. Kiev • The program on the "Earth computer" should have run correctly, but the unexpected arrival of the Golgafrinchans on prehistoric Earth caused input errors into the system—computing the wrong question (because of the garbage in, garbage out rule). Writer Chris Chibnall acknowledged that "it's a playful title". On 3 November 1993, he gave this answer[11] on alt.fan.douglas-adams: The answer to this is very simple. But remember, adventure isn’t always easy. 2 According to the Jargon File, the briefer "not entirely unlike" has entered hacker jargon.[53]. Yekaterinburg • World Levels and Domains have an Adventure Rank requirement before going to the next level. 1 [44], In The Flash, Season 4, Episode 1, Cisco in trying to decipher what Barry is writing explicitly says that what Barry says might solve answer to the Life, the Universe and Everything, which Caitlin suggests is 42. The number 42 and the phrase, "Life, the universe, and everything" have attained cult status on the Internet. 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