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The number 42 was chosen as a reference to the answer to life, the universe and everything. The Google 1st generation Chromecast has the model number H2G2-42 referencing Douglas Adams' book. Cultural references. The Allen Telescope Array, a radio telescope used by SETI, has 42 dishes in homage to the Answer.
42 is the number of integer partition of 10: the number of ways of expressing 10 as a sum of positive integers. [14] 1111123, one of the forty-two unordered integer partitions of 10, has 42 ordered compositions, since. As a polygonal number, 42 is the first (non-trivial) fifteen-sided pentadecagonal number. [15]
In the works, the number 42 is given as The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything by the computer Deep Thought. The absurdly simple answer to a complex philosophical question became a frequent reference in popular culture in homage to The Hitchhiker's Guide , particularly within works of science fiction and in ...
Slartibartfast shows Arthur the archive tapes of the development of Deep Thought, the second most powerful computer ever built, that was given the order to search for the Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything. After seven and a half million years, Deep Thought confidently announced that the answer was "42".
Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42 ...
Deep Thought is the size of a small city. When, after seven and a half million years of calculation, the answer finally turns out to be 42, Deep Thought admonishes Loonquawl and Phouchg (the receivers of the Ultimate Answer) that "[they] checked it very thoroughly, and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest ...
In Douglas Adams' book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is given the numeric solution "42", after seven and a half million years of calculation by a giant supercomputer called Deep Thought. When this answer is met with confusion and anger from its constructors, Deep ...
Life, the Universe and Everything. Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ISBN 0-345-39182-9) is the third book in the six-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy science fiction "trilogy of five books" by British writer Douglas Adams. The title refers to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything .