Here's a mind bender to Douglas Adams. He worked with computers in the 1970s and knew that 42 is the ASCII code for *.
An asterisk is used as a wild card. It can mean anything.
So the meaning of life is anything you want it to mean. 42.
The real answer to the meaning of life was given by the computer in the way a computer could relate it.
@MyWoolyMastadon @tenzochris 42 in ASCII is actually "B"...
At least in the way computers work... 🙈
@heiglandreas @MyWoolyMastadon
Decimal 42 is Char *
Decimal 66 is Char B
But Hex 42 is Char B, correct.
Since Deep Thought says "42" and not "4, 2", we can assume that Deep Thought meant Decimal 42, which is Char *
But Douglas Adams himself has said that he picked 42 randomly without any deeper meaning behind it.
@heiglandreas @MyWoolyMastadon
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/42#Inspiration_for_the_number_42
"It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'".
He further explained in January 2000, in response to a panelist's "Where does the number 42 come from?" 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". He eventually decided that it "should be something that made no sense whatsoever – a number, and a mundane one at that". He arrived at the number 42, completely at random.
42 (or forty-two) is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. This Answer was first calculated by the supercomputer Deep Thought after seven and a half million years of thought. This shocking answer resulted in the construction of an even larger supercomputer, named Earth, which was tasked with determining what the question was in the first place. The Earth was destroyed by the Vogons five minutes before its ten-million year program to find the Ultimate Question
@Ex_spurt @ninafelwitch @MyWoolyMastadon
I believe in Coincidences. But I don't trust them.....
I would totally believe the author's answer. Douglas Adams certainly knew where his towel was at.
Unless he was vacationing in Spain.
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