Waldo JaquithIn “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish,” Douglas Adams wrote that the Hitchhikers’s Guide to the Galaxy is 5,973,509 pages long. English-language Wikipedia currently contains 6,747,777 entries. That means that the size of Wikipedia has now surpassed the size of the Hitchhikers’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Mike Taylor 🦕@waldoj Nice, but this is not in So Long and Thanks for All The Fish.
@mike It is in the copy that I am holding right now and looking at with my eyeballs.
@waldoj How strange. It's not in the copy I've read maybe a dozen times, nor in the one that I just downloaded from libgen.is.
I wonder if there's an American edition with changes? Would you please send a photo of the relevant page? (You can do this as a private message if you don't want to do it publicly.)