September 9th, 2002, 10:36 PM
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Re: 320.2! 301.5, 311.3, 65.4
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Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Well, Arthur discovered the question to be "What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9", proving the universe to be a totally screwed-up place... but that question was proven wrong and it was found that if anyone ever discovered the actual question then the entire universe would disappear and be replaced by one even more complicated. (There is no knowledge of how many times this has happened already.)
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Well, actually, in a Base 13 numbering system, 6 times 9 would be 42. So Arthur found the right question, he just used the wrong counting system to interpret the answer. Now, finding a species that uses a base 13 numbering system is a completely different story altogether...
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