"We Be The Humans"  

For Math Fans: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Number 42

Here is how a perfectly ordinary number captured the interest of sci-fi enthusiasts, geeks and mathematicians.
By Jean-Paul Delahaye

scientificamerican.com/article

1
Gandalf the Relentlessly Gay
Follow

@corlin What always amused me was that the question to life the universe and everything that Arthur came up with was "What do you get if you multiply 6 x 9" To which 42 is only the answer if you do math in base 13.

· 0· 0· 1
Sign in to participate in the conversation

CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.

Resources

Developers

What is CounterSocial?

Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

counter.social

More…