LIFE is a magazine. Or was. Do they still publish it?
Fun fact: in “Hitchhiker’s Guide” we learn that the answer to the great question of life, the universe, and everything is “42,” and that the mice who created Earth as a form of computer to figure out the answer then realized they didn’t know what the great question itself was. By one of the later books (“Life, the Universe, etc,,” I think) they learn that the question was, “what do you get when you multiply six by nine?” Which, of course, doesn’t give 42 (6 times 9 = 54)…. unless you work in base thirteen. (4 × 13=52, + 4 = 54, = 6 × 9).
Demonstrating that the essential constant of our universe is in fact thirteen… which explains a lot about the universe, doesn’t it?
LIFE is a magazine. Or was. Do they still publish it?
Fun fact: in “Hitchhiker’s Guide” we learn that the answer to the great question of life, the universe, and everything is “42,” and that the mice who created Earth as a form of computer to figure out the answer then realized they didn’t know what the great question itself was. By one of the later books (“Life, the Universe, etc,,” I think) they learn that the question was, “what do you get when you multiply six by nine?” Which, of course, doesn’t give 42 (6 times 9 = 54)…. unless you work in base thirteen. (4 × 13=52, + 4 = 54, = 6 × 9).
Demonstrating that the essential constant of our universe is in fact thirteen… which explains a lot about the universe, doesn’t it?