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hey, getting pretty close, aren't we? I'm away from the Internet for 2 days and the number skyrockets. Cool

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We still have a little more than 250 to go. Keep those posts coming!

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42 is the answer to all your questions.

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I thought that was the hokey pokey?

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Not quite. It's only the answer to "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif Oh wait, that's the corrupted version of the question, isn't it.

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What is the question? Do you know what the question is?

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The ultimate question that 42 answers is what is 6 times 9?

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I've read all five books, and I don't think the ultimate question is ever revealed, but there is one attempt to figure it out by having Arthur Dent, the last surviving component of the supercomputer known as Earth that was destroyed 5 minutes before solving the problem, pull scrabble tiles from a bag without looking. They come out in this order: "whatdoyougetwhenyoumultiplysixbynine".

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Yup. But 6 times 9 is NOT 42.

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6 times 9 IS 42. Definitively.

Let's see. Consider the decimal system is no more, and maths abide by something more complicated (like imperial measures compared to the metrical system). If you make this operation in a base 13 system (where 10 means 13 in our own system), 42 is equal to 13X4+2=54, exactly the result of 6X9 in a base 10 system. So, 6X9=42 is perfectly correct, so long as we are in a base 13 system.

If memory serves, the Scrabble board used in the books is only thirteen tiles long, while a standard board has 15 tiles (I think). Therefore, the question can easily be solved. Now, please sit tight while the current universe is destroyed to make way for a zanier universe, as per the First Rule of Universal Physics.