42 and Douglas Adams - Numberphile
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2024
- Douglas Adams - who would have turned 60 on March 11 - immortalised the number 42 in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓
Forty-two was calculated by Deep Thought!
In this video is James Grime, Phil Moriarty and Gerardo Adesso: www.numberphile.com/team/index...
NUMBERPHILE
Website: www.numberphile.com/
Numberphile on Facebook: / numberphile
Numberphile tweets: / numberphile
Subscribe: bit.ly/Numberphile_Sub
Videos by Brady Haran
Patreon: / numberphile
Brady's videos subreddit: / bradyharan
Brady's latest videos across all channels: www.bradyharanblog.com/
Sign up for (occasional) emails: eepurl.com/YdjL9
Numberphile T-Shirts: teespring.com/stores/numberphile
Other merchandise: store.dftba.com/collections/n... - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
![โอ้มายก๊อด! ไม่ถึงชั่วโมงหมดเป็นแสน 😅 [cc] แดนแพทตี้ SS2 | EP.42 |](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OH2ShXfO6tA/mqdefault.jpg)
42 has to be mystical. It is said that every human over the age of 43 has been age 42. Coincidence? I think not.
Illuminazi confiemed?
Benjamin Abruzzo, don't believe what Steven Moore says! He's probably just a commie!
lol
My thumbs up brought the total to 55. If we can work in the 23 enigma as well then my life's work is just about complete.
Benjamin Abruzzo At first, I thought this was just a rumor until it happened to me.
M (13th letter of the alphabet)
A (1st)
T (20th)
H (8th)
= 42
my brain
EARTH = 52... How typical.
😱
Illuminati confirmed
perl -e 'print length "Answer to Life the Universe and Everything"'
According to the books, 42 is not the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. It is the "answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything."
YES THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MountainHawkPYL Go on....
Limitation Zero Well, no one knows what the actual question is. :P
Robot Jones the question is... what is 6 times 9?
42, in base 13.
According to Douglas Adams himself:
The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story.
IT'S WIKIPEDIA IT CANT BE TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Shikhanshu Agarwal
In the books, the question was actually "what's 6x7?"
Actually CJ the question was "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
Derek Hopkins Really?
Oh, it's base 13.
I like the way Douglas Adams basically said "It's the job of everyone on earth to make sense out of existence, a job they will fail at" and everyone's running around finding significance in the shape of the apostrophe of the initial "It's"
reminds me of the green pieces of paper that appear in the book :-)
The meaning of life=MATH
M: 13th letter
A: 1st letter
T: 20th letter
H: 8th letter
13+1+20+8=42!
***** 21+21?....yes.....42!
The British writer, author, speaker, actor, intellectual, Stephen Fry, was one of Douglas Adams’s closest friends. Ten or fifteen years or so ago during one of his many interviews on British television, Fry was asked about Adams and the mystical number Forty-two.
Fry said this (I paraphrase.)
“Under a promise of absolute confidentiality, Douglas told me the answer; and it’s right there in plain sight-right under everybody’s noses. If only they would look! Its incredibly simple. And it’s brilliant.”
There is one such simple ~ish analysis which, although a prime contender I still think is wrong; but it postulates that the ASCII code, 42, creates an asterisk (*)-hinting that “42” can mean “anything you want it to mean.” (Source unknown.) That, however being not quite as “simple” as Fry indicated, I think I can beat it.
(Spoiler:)
In “The Hitchikers Guide,” the key to the whole saga turns out to be the mice! What do mice do all day-every day? They make more mice.
The answer “to life, the Universe, and Everything” is not “forty-two”; its “for - two.”
Life is for two.
The answer is “Love!”
I remember that interview and cannot find it anywhere. Was it ever on TH-cam? Maybe it was in a behinds the scene somewhere?
Loved your answer by the way!
Common misconception: 42 is the answer to the *GREAT QUESTION OF* life, the Universe, and everything. It is *NOT* the answer to life, the universe, and everything. That was a crucial part of the joke. The supercomputer had to calculate the answer to the question without knowing the question, and arrived at 42. As is later revealed, the question that Earth produced, albeit skewed due to golgafrinchans, was "What do you get when you multiply six by nine."
As Arthur says, "I always knew there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe."
i hate that too, wasn't that the ultimate question however? seems like everyone who reads that book reads something different, that's genius writing if you ask me XD
People have pointed out that (I think) in base 6, the answer is correct, which Douglas Adams said is a major coincidence.
base-13
Could you think about tagging your spoilers?!?!?!
It does in base 13
Hi, I'm an Italian guy, and I'm proud to be from Anzio, Rome!
Why? Because Anzio's italian postal code is 00042 and its coordinates are about 42°N!
Plus, my European shoes measure is 42.
blessed
Douglas Adams also knew a thing or two about programming, and in programming an asterisk is commonly used to translate to "anything you want it to be". In ASCII, "42" is the designation for an asterisk, so in asking a computer to come up with the ultimate answer to "life, the universe and everything", it answered as a computer would, 42 = "anything you want it to be" so on top of it being just funny and random and everything else its presented as, it actually has a deeper meaning if you know what to look for.
Except in almost every programming language, * is actually used for multiplication...
Douglass Adams literally stared out his window and said “42 will do” at complete random
"What number is funnier than 42?"
25.
Caged Lemp eleventeen
Slinger Marshall eleventy is too :)
Caged Lemp 27
+Caged Lemp I was looking for this comment. I just KNEW it was going to be here!
+vicki talbot Eleventy-eleven.
In unicode, character #42 (0x00A2) is the * symbol, which is used a wildcard symbol in programming and computer languages.
So life is what you make of it, and it can be anything you want it to be.
It also means "to multiply" so maybe that's the meaning of life :)
Ok, that’s cool.
This is one of my favorite interpretations. I hadn't thought of the fact that it's the multiplication operator! That's great.
Exactly!
That's it! That's what I was thinking of.
I heard of that ages ago, but I was thinking that it was "42" that was the variable that can stand for anything you want, but it's the "*". Thank you.
I really like the idea (though seeming coincidence) that 42 degrees is the angle that light is refracted by rain drops forming a rainbow. The General Mish Mash is just the minute particle back drop of the universe and your angle of perspective dictates how you see life.
The video is 8 minutes and 42 seconds long!!! :0
8:41... close enough.
+Li siej It is 8:42, not 8:41.
the last second is considered a pseudosecond... it's not nice to taunt a pseudosecond as they tend to be very emotional and unpredictable in most of their three dimensional construct projections (except when green and on alternate thursdays of leap years)
I am gonna pretend i understood you.
Awsomiihill it's probably better that way
The funniest part about the number 42 is that fans of the books are looking for a deeper meaning in it, while there is just nothing. It is the same thing as looking for the ultimate question. There is no chance of finding one, only thing you can do is just theorize about it. How beautiful, Douglass...
Heyyyyy fourty-two here.
lol
@thoughty two
nice reference
Ooooooh, well damn, I was "always" wondering about that channel's name. It it really meant to be understood that way? Anyway I love it :)!
I was thinking all the time on that...
@ sine moderamine
"If you put 42 on the surface of an atom, would that make it a Douglas atom?"
Lol! You, sir, win an internetz.
Mark Ryan Douglassium
That's so beyond great. Lol
I thought a Douglas Atom would be Molybdenum.
The answer to everything is -1/12.
Noob
It's 42, dummy.
Lol
A reference to -1 + 2 + -3 + 4 + -5 + -6 + 7 + -8 . . .
Cody Natof I thought it was 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8... =-1/12
42 isn't the answer to life, the universe, and everything! It's the answer to _the ultimate question_ of life, the universe, and everything!
Thank you! I really hate when people miss that bit because that's what makes it make some sort of sense in the story.
What's the question :D?
+CoalOres How many roads must a man walk down.
I am not sure though, i was a kid when i last read it.
+CoalOres The question is: What do you get when you multiply six by nine?
puppetsock
54
When I heard that Douglas Adams had died (and at such an unbelievably young age), I felt like I'd lost a family member, or a close friend. I think his impact on rational, intelligent people (with a sense of humour) will last forever though.
No, Douglas Adams never said he chose 42 "because it was a funny number", on the contrary. He said he chose 42 because it was a boring number, and he didn't want to hide the "big joke" (that the answer to life is simply a number) behind a "small joke" (i.e., a funny or "weird" number). So he picked a number that sounded as ordinary and as boring as possible. He mentioned this in several interviews and (I think) in "The Salmon of Doubt".
Unfortunately, a lot of people (including many Douglas Adams fans) completely miss the point, and keep trying to find something funny about 42.
The joke is that it's simply a number, not which number it is.
I believe on different occasions he would say either “because it is a boring number” or “because it is a funny number.” That leaves me with the impression that he thought it was funny because it was boring... Kind of makes sense to me.
42ND LIKE WHOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO
Yeah, that's right.
However, finding all these hidden meanings in this one simple number... it might just mean D.A. subconsciously knew more than he was aware. About life, universe and everything.
Turn the number upside down.
You got "2b"
To be, is the answer to the question.
U have 21 likes...
42/2=21...
0x2B + !0x2B = 0xFF
Merecir If it were the universe would’ve stopped existing
Mine was the 42nd like. Have an improbably probable day!
42 likes now. I refuse to like and ruin this perfection
It's been 3 years that I found this video that got me hooked on maths videos. Nice little reunion in quarantine
42 is the center point for a pica typewriter (i.e., the 10 characters per inch kind). This also happens to be the sort of typewriter that was normally used for typing screenplays back before everyone wrote everything on computers. Thus, early in Adams' career, he likely would have started every screenplay by moving his typewriter carriage to character position 42.
Here's in my opinion the coolest thing about the number 42:
If you were to find all the triads of regular polygons that "fit perfectly" when they all share one vertex, so each shape shares a side with both other shapes.
(e.g three regular hexagons, as in graphene/honeycomb
120 + 120 + 120 = 360)
A 42 sided shape has the highest number of sides out of any shape that exists in any of these triads
This special triad is: a regular triangle, heptagon and a 42 sided polygon
60 + 128.57 + 171.43 = 360
(All numbers are rounded to 2dp but the equation holds true in exact form)
every time they said 42 I was thinking of thoughty2
I think that's why he chose that name. If you start looking at popular nerd culture then references to 42 pop up all over the place.
@lordchickenhawk It *_IS_* the reason Arran chose that number, he has said so himself in the 42. episode of his RIF series (RIF stands for Random interesting) in which he answered a lot of viewer questions about himself.
My favourite TH-cam channel !!
my feeling is that 42 is the age when you get a handle on life the universe and everything
I agree!
"What number is funnier than 42?"
How does your mind not instantly jump to 69?
no
Jamie Fendt Ok grumpy cat, name me a number funnier than 69 - there aren't exactly that many funny numbers going around
21
Jetserpent Why 21?
#777static777 why 42 ?
I always thought the joke about 42 being the answer to the meaning of life was found in Japanese. The Japanese word for 4 is pronounced something like shi, or chi. The word for 2 is pronounced nee. 4 2 (four, followed by two, not the number forty-two) would be pronounced like shi-nee, which is the same pronunciation as the Japanese word for die, or death. Thus, the answer to the meaning of life, is death. X)
That's what I always thought the joke was about, anyway.
Fakenit66 I think you're right
shiji ni is forty two.
the joke is on you?
That's interesting. And it wouldn't be far fetched to think that Douglas would have done that. The Doctor Who episode he wrote, _The City of Death_ is named because it was set in Paris which is commonly known as "The City of Love", and the two in French have basically the same pronunciation.
City of Love - "La ville de l'amour"
City of Death - "La ville de la morte"
Fakenit66 it's called yonju ni and not shi ni
Shine (die) is not pronounced the same as shini (four two).
Shine is shi-NEH.
Shini is shi-NEE.
It's interesting to note that one of the first intentional broadcasts beamed out into space was beeps of the first (at the time) 7 prime numbers. 1 was being counted at the time, so it was 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13. Which is, interestingly enough, when added equal to 42. So, if there was an alien that created the Earth as a supercomputer and waited for the first intentional broadcast to space, it would get 42 as its answer.
I too have heard the reason is because the ASCII code 42 is the "*" which is a wildcard (can be anything, including nothing) in many search mechanisms.
0:42
lol... i didn't even notice that!
hahaha your name perfect xD
42 42
My like on this comment makes it 42. -.
Was about to like this comment. NOOOO I DIDN'T! Because it's at 42 likes. Well done!
When he said that folding a 0.1 mm paper 42 times will reach to the moon in height, i said there is no way. 42 seemed like a small number and easy to count from 1 to it. Then I actually went ahead and calculated it, and discovered that it was really possible. If you calculate 2^42 and multiply by the paper thickness it gives a number grater than the moon-to-earth distance.
Nope; it will only reach just over a 10th of the way. Lets do the math. Paper is .1mm thick so the thickness of paper is 1/10,000,000 or a kilometer. Folding a piece of paper 42 times is the same thing as having 2^42 thickness of paper which equals 4,398,046,511,104. How tall is that? It is 4,398,046,511,104/10,000,000 km or 43,984 km tall. The moon is 384,399 km away from the earth.
@@jimgaluska1361 Since when are there 10,000,000 mm in a km?
Douglas Adams was an unabashed computer nerd & knew a heck of a lot about programming language & coding. In programming, an asterisk is commonly used to translate as "whatever you want it to be". In ASCII language, the most basic computer software, '42' is the designation for an asterisk. A computer, 'Deep Thought' was asked what the true meaning of life was. It answered as a computer would, '42' = "whatever you want it to be" Genius.
It also, coincidently or not, fits well with light refraction at 42°, which is from the perspective of the beholder. We all see from our own perspectives and the universe is what we each see subjectively, from our own personal angle. Whatever you want it to be, indeed.
"What number is funnier than 42"
me - ehe... he... 69
M8 you aint dank. 420 blaze it upon this bich. #3mlg5you
No, 47.
So, I gave you the 69th like 😬
Enjoyed this video a year ago, not having seen or read "Hitchhiker's Guide." Saw the movie last week and the dramatic theme still loops in my head today. The spoiler in this video was long forgotten, so the story was fresh. May not have watched the film had I not seen and remembered this video. Thank you....
The movie was horrible, try to see the series, much funnier and truer to the book.
2:00
42 was never claimed to be the meaning of life. They asked for the answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. "What is the meaning of life?" was specifically dismissed as a possibility for the question.
Indeed.
Irritates me every time commentators get this wrong
Great to see someone get this right
aliens then?
So what is the great question of life?
Perhaps, what is our purpose?
Am I alone behind this phaneron?
Well, there are probably a lot of questions in Life, the Universe and Everything. So, the ultimate question is presumably the one posed when you know all the answers to all the preceeding ones.
I love how Gerardo found some properties of 42 and then made up words to describe them (Pronic number, Primary Pseudoperfect number, Harshad number). Also when James was describing the guy finding mystical meanings for the number 42, I thought maybe it was self-referential. Thanks for the video :D
In japanese. the sound for 4 is Shi, and the sound for 2 is ni, if you combine them, Shini, it translates to death.
It actually stems from Chinese, the number 4 is read si 四, which means death 死 (same characters in both languages) - and for the Chinese this is an unlucky number much like our number 13. And in Japanese Shi し is 'death' and shi-ne しね is the verb form, while shi-ni しに is more like 'dying'
Bloodmoon 死に wouldn't mean anything yet you have to add 方 or something
お前は本当に仕方がないやつだ.
So the answer to life, the universe and everything is death?
Death Note teaching people Japanese!
Very interesting. Thanks for making this video.
I just noticed that if you count the characters in: "Answer to life the universe and everything" you get 42
Confirmed.
wrong, it's 42. count again
It's 34
I heard a story about some guy who asked his mathematics teacher "What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?" to which his teacher responded with "Math."
If each letter is assigned a number from 1-27 in ascending order...
M - 13
A - 1
T - 20
H - 8
If added together you get 42
Lel noice
tfw people reply to comments from months ago
+RMG36000 A light hearted video and light hearted comments and you get so serious?
So...truncation of words isn't a "thing" where you're from? You can't "put some gas[oline] in the auto[mobile]," or "hop on board the [Omni]bus," or "catch an [aero]plane?"
1-27?
What number is funnier than 42? 77. It's like 69, only you get 8 more.
naughty naughty!
Nice one!
77 - 69 = 8 , 4*2=8, 42 O.O
YoSoyGabo mind. blown.
42. 4+2=6. 4×2=8. 8×6=48. 48-42=6. 48 and 42 are 2 numbers. 6÷2=3. You know what else has 3? The illuminati. 42 is iilluminati confirmed.
The amount of letters in this sentence is forty two.
(i typed this expecting to have to change the sentence around to actually make it 42 letters, but i counted and it was right at 42! I am a believer)
Here's one:
if a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4,etc...
math: m=13 , a = 1, t= 20, h= 8...13+1+20+8 = 42
math = 42
Swan Electro b
S = 19. 42+19=61
Kuin Firipusu and that's why "Maths" is incorrect.
42 people have already commented this fact.
The correct word is Mathematics:
using the code you suggest, which by the way is what the Greeks used in pre-Roman times:
m=13, a=1, t=20, h=8, e=5, m=13, a=1, t=20, i=9, c=3, s=19 ... 13+ 1+ 20+ 8+ 5+ 13+ 1+ 20+ 9+ 3+ 19 = 112
Which would have been Bilbo's age by the end of The Lord of the Rings, so we should all go away and read Tolkien's works: *The Hobbit,* The 6 books of *The Lord of the Rings* and *The Simarillion.*
5:30 It's interesting that a lot of the primary pseudoperfect numbers are also pronic numbers, specifically the product of the previous primary pseudoperfect number by one more than itself.
2×3=6
6×7=42
42×43=1,806
47,058×47,059=2,214,502,422
Jivan Scarano - These numbers reduce down to their lowest form, 6
On April 29, 2005 at the Disney El Cap theater in Hollywood, I attended the first showing of the film version of H2G2. I had a wonderful conversation with an older gentleman who said he was part of the original H2G2 radio broadcast cast. He mentioned that he asked Douglas Adams why the answer to life, the universe and everything was 42. Adams told him that if you count the # of dots on a pair of dice, you will see there are 42- and life is just a roll of the dice.
Started seeing this number everywhere about 5 months ago before starting to look into it.
I've discovered something amazing... 42 sits between 2 prime numbers 41 & 43. Here are the products, 2*3*7 = 42, and so does 2, and, 2*3 = 6 and that also is surrounded by 5 & 7 two more prime numbers! If you add up the 2+3+7, you get 12 which is also prime number bookended with 11 & 13. Swap the number around 24 and minus that from 42 = 18, and that also between 2 prime numbers, 17 & 19.... need I say more!
+Evol Bob ... did you say 1 is prime?
+Cooper Gates *air horns*
"the answer to life the universe and everthing is 42" has 42 characters
The actual sentence has more words than that but no "and".
The answer to the ultimate question to life, the universe, everything
Almighty Zarquon, I truly miss Douglas Adams. :( The first time I heard the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I knew it was something special. As I grew up and came into contact with more science nerds like myself, I quickly realized how much it inspired our particular subculture.
this is the most interesting interpretation of 42~
if the number is rotated upside-down,
it reads- 2b,
so the answer to the ultimate question is
for two to be,, or to be for two,,
and tea for two and two for tea
and me for you and you for me..
after all what would experiencing life be
if there wasn't another to share it with..?
Scooby dooby doo?
I'm currently reading the DNA biography 'The Frood' by Jem Roberts. Before HHGG was a thing, Douglas worked for some while with Graham Chapman from Monty Python but he also spent a few days working as prop buyer for John Cleese who was making training films. One film was about accountancy and they needed a difficult calculation to give an amusing result. It was an easy choice because evidently Cleese and Chapman had already agreed in the past that 42 was the funniest number.
The inaudible words that Gerardo said was "It sounds like an innocent property, but it's not."
Wow.
after reading the hitchiker's guide to the galaxy, I noticed every single time that I saw a 42 for like 3 or 4 years, but it has calmed down
Thanks!
6 x 9 = 42
in base 13...
Isjt 6 x 9 = 45?
Pretty unlucky
Adlcee 4dlceE it’s in base 13 it’s a completely different number system
(LIFE x UNIVERSE) + EVERYTHING = 42
Calculate with the number of the letters.
A Wild Rengar Appeared It wont work in other language
Illuminati confirmed
23
Life universe and everything
Total letters
23
Fourty-two
40-2 is 38
38 is 83 backwards
23 - 83
60
Divided by the final number we knew as 1st grade?
10
60:10 is 6
0 is known as a nothing number
But it says everything? What's everything ? Messed up
Messed up has 8 total letters
8 so there is no nothingness
6 and 8 together are 14
14 . How many lines does the number 42 have?
4
14 and 4 is 18
18 backwards (81) minus the words that are in the life and ... question
23
81 MINUS 23
Is 58
But .
Our population is 7.4 billion..
50.6
if we minus that with the number
Billion has 7 zeros
50.6 minus 7
That's 41.6
7 is considered as the lucky number
And at the casino there are 3 slots
If you win 3 sevens you get the lottery
So 7-3 is 4. But 4 what?
0.4
41.6 plus 0.4
Boom. 42
4
It's funny how people always try to find out new questions that equal 42 but forget to search the ultimate question itself.
I've found 42 digit patterns hidden in the decimals of the solutions of divisions. Divisions where 49 is the denominator can have one 42 digit pattern (except for numbers divisible by 7, those use 6 digit decimal patterns, (again) except for numbers divisible by 49 (those won't have decimals)). In divisions where 127 is the denominator, there are 3 different 42 digit patterns being used.
The meaning to life is to find out the meaning of the number 42.
light broken down by a 42 degree angle into many parts which we perceive visually by a colour spectrum known as a rainbow.
We, wholeness, broken down by a prism (prison) into many fractal parts and thats our current "reality".
At my old university's course fair the philosophy table was table 42 on the map. I walked up and asked if it was on purpose. Then I had to explain. *face palm*
There is a Bollywood movie called Table No. 21.
42/2=21. Coincidence?I think not.
Numberphile is amazing
Browsing in a bookshop in Botswana in 1990, I found The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in the travel section.
Praise 42 let's all convert to 42ism where we get to live to be 42 where we're then cleansed from 42 (42 is the new word for life), then we'll have math in base 42 and the circumference of a circle relative to its diameter will be 42.424242424242 and every 42ing being breathing the air of 42 will be happy
😂😂😂😂😂
The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash (WSOGMM) is the sum total of all the different ways that exists of looking at things, or more specifically, all the different probabilities that exist through which you could look at things.
The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash, one could say, should be viewed as a plate of pie, or as a large tank of water. You could slice it and divide it up any way you'd like, and you'll almost always find a way of looking at things somewhere in probability (a parallel universe) that somebody will find familiar.
What about Japanese names for the letters:
4=shi
2=ni
Shi+ni= shini
Shini= death( shinigami=God of death)
So the answer to life the universe and everything is death
“What number is funnier than 42? 71? 68?”
We were on the verge of greatness,
we were this close.
So weird, when Dr. M asked 'what's a funnier number than 42?' I immediate stated in tandem with him - 71! lol
42 is 'shini' in Japanese
'Shini' in Japanese.....means death...
The answer the life, the universe and everything is death, seems fitting....
:)
You're almost correct.
deep
The answer to the !ultimate question! to life the universe bad everything
Ah, perhaps the question must be "What comes after this?"
If that is it, that is a very underwhelming response by such a big computer :( We already knew THAT part, we wanted to know more specifically :(
Be careful whatcha wish for, ya just might get it get it...
6:37
What number's funnier than 42? You guessed 71, then 68... you missed it completely, it's SIXTY NINE!!
COME ONNNNNN 69 69 69 69 69 69!!!
No, no. He said, "What's funnier" not what's funner.
If you google "cuboctahedron" you will find a 14 faced geometric shape that is balanced by sets of twelves. It has 24 equal length edges, 24 equal length "radials" that connect the vertices to the center, 24 external vertices, BUT YET, when you view it in 2D you can count FOURTY TWO sections.
And as an added bonus, you will find (and it is not commonly known, maybe not known at all, that a flattened cuboctahedron IS the framework with all snowflakes build upon as they crystallize. When you factor in that it takes 10^20 or so water molecules to make a snowflake, the fact they crystallize persistently around such a framework becomes that much more compelling. Yes, 42 and snowflake shape are intimately related to one another.
42 is GREAT. :-)
p.s. Thanks for the video.
42 also features heavily in Lewis Carroll's "Hunting of the Snark"
I've also heard it claimed that 42 was chosen because it sounds like 'fortitude' -- necessary to get through life!
"Someone with a particular taste for recurrences" may be my new favorite definition of "nerd".
It's also the "mega lotto number" in LOST. (4 8 15 16 23 42)
8,31 and 73 also appear frequently too they’re my favorite numbers
I always thought it probably went this way.
'There is a theory stating that any time a sentient being figures out whats going on in the universe and how it all works -[paraphraseing the begininmg of the books]- The universe instantly colapses in on itself and comes back even more inexplicable and confusing than before. '
Q: How many times has this happened?
A: 42
Video is 8:42 long. There the 42 is again.
clearly says 8:41 here.
lash 8:42 here, maybe you use Flash-player and I HTML-Player or the other way around?
I've got flash player 16.0.0.235
dont know why mine still says 8.41
never mind, lol
lash
Well, I use HTMl 5-Player. Maybe thats why we have different times.
Garbaz I got 8:41
The length of the sentence "Answer to life the universe and everything" is 42
Coincidence? I think not
+Kad Leon 42 with spaces
This appears in another strange place. In one of the Carlos Castenada books the student and protagonist is told by the medicine man to do something 42 times because that is the number of the universe. Super weird coincidence.
Wonderful
So, if you count all the numbers on one dice, you`ll get 21. Therefor you need 2 dices to get number 42. Answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is 2 (to) die. I suppose the ultimate question is What`s the meaning of life? ... To die.
DeLoN1288 - in Latin die means day. So 2 day= Today.
When he says "When 42 turns up, you keep noticing it." I don't think it's a coincidence that you're meant to glance around and see if it appears anywhere else, yet this happens at 0:42
Amazing 😂
Nice
I keep seeing this number I've been noticing it for years
Carolyn Devins Same here, also my birthdate in my country starts with day then month so it goes 4th of Feb. 4-2-1973. jeje
I grew up in house number 42 when I was a child, which I always thought of as a cool coincidence. However, thinking about it, I'm sure that influenced my dad's thinking when it came to which house to purchase!
I know what it mean
Step add all the number on the faces of a die =21
Do this with two dice
Then the take the answers of both die
And add them so that's
21+21=42
Then remember how many dice you used 2 in case you didn't remember
So you have
2 die
The answer
Is
To die
i know just heard it on a show
This assumes a 6 sided die...
If you use an 8 sided die you get a total of 36
Which doesn't help you at all
I am still butthurt about Fenchurch.
I know, right!
XD
Sense Locke Read the seventh book.
Christmas Burkey Wait...what? The series continued after book 5?
Jeremy Higgins The sixth was the last one that Adams wrote, but the seventh was picked up by someone else. It's called "And another thing" or something like that.
I like how one of them explained detail about math while the other two mixed with pop culture
Love this book
42. Minus 1 from four and add 1 from two. Each digit would be 3. Half life 3 confirmed.
42, ha ha. I couldn't help but laugh. =))
Numberphile, thank you _si_ much, for the "spoiler warning" at the very start. You see I _just_ started reading the book & I'm not ready for this yet. I'll catch a different video instead. 🤗💖
42 is the number of 5-second segments of happy-dancing in a 3-1/2 minute vlogbrothers video.
in japanese 4 is Shi, 2 is Ni, ShiNi means death. therefore the answer to life, the universe and everything is death. (yes I know 42 is yon juu ni)
This annoys me a lot. 42 is not the answer to life, the Universe, and everything, it is the answer to the Ultimate Question. These are 2 very different things.
Ultimate Question About Life, The Universe, And Everything, to be correct, since capital letter makes everything looks cooler(or symilar it was explained in the first book)
When Douglas Adams was young his parents would take him to St.Cedds chapel in Bradwell on sea and apparently he used to sit and count the panes of glass in all 4 windows of which there are 42.
You can tell Brady added that last little clip, and had it cut off almost mid word, just so the video would be 8 minutes and 42 seconds long.
Did anyone else realize that the video is 8:42 long
Me, _7_ years later. _7_ ×6=42
So the Ultimate Question then is, What is the only 2 digit primary psudoperfect number?
+Eric Taylor Like we haven't all been wondering for years!!
Eric Taylor in base 10*
Interestingly, the Computer Science academic paper "A Theory of Type Polymorphism in Programming" by Robin Milner, written in 1977, is using 42 in an example on the last page.
If I'm correct, this is before HG2G was broadcast on BBC.
(Note: this is a landmark paper in the theory of programming languages.)
6x7=42 is the first multiplication I ever learn.