The Number 42 (Forty Two)

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About The Number 42 (Forty Two)

This group is for all pictures of the Number 42. The origins of this are detailed below. If you dont know about it, you should read the book.

I want your 42's!!

I know there is already another group for this but I want my own, I believe 42's are very abundant in Teesside and North Yorkshire, so show me yours!



The number 42 is The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, according to Douglas Adams' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything has a numeric solution in Douglas Adams' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
In the story, a "simple answer" to The Ultimate Question is requested from the computer Deep Thought - specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer which turns out to be 42.

When asked to provide The Ultimate Question, the computer says that it can't, but can help design an even more powerful computer (the Earth) which can.
The programmers then embark on a further, ultimately futile, ten million year program to discover The Ultimate Question, hindered by Golgafrinchans after 8 million years, and in the last five minutes by the Vogons.

"I think the problem is that the question was too broadly based..."
"Forty two?!" yelled Loonquawl.
"Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"

"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer.
I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."

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