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  2. Mar 1, 2018 · What does 42 mean? 42 is the answer to the “ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything,” a joke in Douglas Adams’s 1979 novel, 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.
  3. Mar 2, 2018 · In the tech world, specifically the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), 42 is the code for the asterisk symbol, which signifies a wildcard character on the keyboard....

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  4. Jan 10, 2024 · There are so many things that 42 could be the answer to. In math alone, it’s the number of partitions of 10 – that is, the number of ways you can write 10 as a sum of positive integers; it’s ...

  5. Nov 17, 2013 · According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Is it ever explained, in canon 1, why the answer to the meaning of life is 42? 1 - Book, Film, TV series or Radio series.

  6. May 25, 2016 · The meaning of 42 is the lesson that Arthur Dent learns at the end of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The meaning of 42 and the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is to live well...

  7. Nov 1, 2023 · What Does 42 Mean? In slang, 42 is often used as a reference to the book or as a shorthand for something that is the answer to a difficult question or problem. For example, if someone asks you how to fix a broken computer, you might jokingly reply, “Have you tried 42?”

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