The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything
Toward the end of the book, the supercomputer Deep Thought reveals that the answer to the “Great Question” of “Life, the Universe and Everything” is “forty-two.”
Deep Thought takes 7.5 million years to calculate the answer to the ultimate question. The characters tasked with getting that answer are disappointed because it is not very useful. Yet, as the computer points out, the question itself was vaguely formulated.
To find the correct statement of the query whose answer is 42, the computer will have to build a new version of itself. That, too, will take time. The new version of the computer is Earth.
To find out what happens next, you’ll have to read Adams’s books.
Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-math-fans-a-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-number-42/
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