Mastodawn

@ivor @Floppy So, 18 base-42 sounds better than 50, IMHO

#UltimateQuestion #TheUltimateQuestionAboutLifeTheUniverseAndEverything

John Andrzej Odrzywolek has bravely reinvented the wheel by declaring that you can derive math's most basic operations using... math's most basic operations! 🚀🤔 Apparently, the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is a single function and the number 1. Who knew? 🤷‍♂️
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/04/13/the-smallest-math-library/ #reinventingthewheel #mathoperations #ultimatequestion #mathfun #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Mathematical minimalism

How to bootstrap all the common calculator functions from just one function.

John D. Cook | Applied Mathematics Consulting

Jim Donegan 🎵 ✅Mar 14, 2023

#CoolWorlds - The #UltimateQuestion of The #Universe: Why Is There Anything?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgQlcEF9BOM&ab_channel=CoolWorlds

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #Science #Physics #Astrophysics #Metaphysics #LawsOfPhysics #LawsOfNature #Existence #Reality #Nothing #Nothingness #Contingency #DavidKipping

The Ultimate Question of The Universe

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C.L. Irwin

Mar 8, 2023

Is the ultimate question...?

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What do you want?

6.5%

What do you need?

12.9%

What's for dinner?

37.1%

What's the answer to everything? It's 42. ;-)

43.5%

Poll ended at Mar 15, 2023 at 3:37am.

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Marcel Waldvogel Nov 18, 2022

@dramypsyd Don't take the experiment down yet, it's not yet finished!

It's actually the mice that have been running complex experiments on humans through #Twitter as part of their 10-million-year research program to find the #UltimateQuestion.

Jim Donegan 🎵 ✅Nov 18, 2022

#42 and #DouglasAdams - #Numberphile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6tINlNluuY&ab_channel=Numberphile

#Numbers #Math #Maths #Mathematics #HHGTTG #Numerology #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #LifeTheUniverseAndEverything #UltimateAnswer #UltimateQuestion