RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Re: [MLUG] Crucifixition of Micheal

["McNutt, Justin M." <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Hmm...  How about this one:

According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Meaning of Life, The
Universe, and Everything is 42, right?

Then, at the end of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (I think),
Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect discover via an ancient Earthling and a game of
Scrabble that the Ultimate Question is "What do you get if you multiply six
times nine?"

Which is amusing.  However, 6 x 9 is 54 (decimal).  Now, take 54 and convert
it into base 13.  Guess what you get:

That's right.  42.

:-)

I figured this out on one of my many drives to St. Louis.  I was curious to
see what 42 would work out to in decimal if 42 itself were base 11, 12, 13,
etc. (trying to make it equal 54 decimal), mostly as something to eat up the
time.  I couldn't believe it worked...

...especially since I had only travelled about 20 miles and had already
solved the problem.  :-(

--J

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 4:52 PM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Re: [MLUG] Crucifixition of Micheal
> 
> 
> Since we're on religious subjects.. does anyone else find it 
> funny that
> WWW is 666 in Hebrew (or 18 depending how you read it) and 
> 999 on a keypad
> which is 666 upside down? :)
> 
> "The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the
> opening of new frontiers."
>                                        -- Arthur Koestler
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