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  2. 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.

  3. Sep 10, 2019 · The number 42 is especially significant to fans of science fiction novelist Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” because that number is the answer given by a supercomputer to “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.”

  4. Jan 10, 2024 · Life. 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...

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    • At how many degrees, offset from the Sun (or any light source), is a rainbow produced? There are many ways to create a rainbow: from raindrops to waterfalls to garden hoses to mist to the spray from bodies of water.
    • What is the number of ways that you can partition the number 10? It’s easy to think of different ways to divide up any number. If you have three oranges, and two people, for example, you can give all three to person 1, all three to person 2, one to person 1 and two to person 2, or 1.5 to each of the two people.
    • What is the largest integer whose reciprocal, along with three other unique integer reciprocals, adds up to 1? Perhaps the Universe, as some have conjectured, really is driven by mathematical relationships at a core level, with those relationships underpinning the physical laws of reality.
    • How many times will the Sun orbit the Milky Way before catastrophically transforming into a red giant? This is one of the most fun facts about our Solar System, where the planets revolve around the Sun and the Sun, like all stars, orbits around center of the Milky Way.
  5. In the puzzle the question is unknown, but the answer is already known to be 42. This is similar to the book where the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" is known but not the question. The puzzle first appeared in The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was later incorporated into the covers of ...

  6. Feb 6, 2011 · Douglas Adams said it was the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. He meant it as a joke, but a new book shows how the number 42 has played a significant role in...

  7. The Answer to Life. 42 is the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. It was computed by Deep Thought, the second greatest computer ever. [1]

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