Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks agoFunny enough, there’s a point in a later book in the series where they suggest the “ultimate question’” that 42 is an answer to is “What do you get if you multiply six by nine?”
MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Which works in base 13!
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Im 93% sure that 6*9 doesnt equal 42 in base 6227020800
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
which, when a mathemagician occasionally asked adams about it, he would respond along the lines of “oh fuck”