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Sep 10, 2019 · Using the Charity Engine computer cluster, Andrew Sutherland of MIT and Andrew Booker of Bristol University solved the famous Diophantine Equation mathematics puzzle for the number 42. That is, are there three cubes whose sum is 42?
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In the puzzle the question is unknown, but the answer is already known to be 42. This is similar to the book where the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" is known but not the question. The puzzle first appeared in The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was later incorporated into the covers of ...
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Mar 1, 2012 · Well as most people know, the “answer” to this question (in the Hitchhikers universe) is 42. When Douglas Adams was asked whether he invented this question because six times nine is actually 54, which is 42 when written in base thirteen, he replied:
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42 (or forty-two) is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. This Answer was first calculated by the supercomputer Deep Thought after seven and a half million years of thought.
Sep 21, 2020 · In one instance, the series suggests that 42 is the answer to the question “What do you get if you multiply six by nine?” That idea seems absurd because 6 x 9 = 54.
The Ultimate Question was sought after the supercomputer Deep Thought revealed the Ultimate Answer to be 42.
