On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:11:36PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
> Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:10:43PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
> > > Chris Jenks wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I thought that the book said the book said that the ultimate question
> > > > is, "what is 6 * 9?"
> > >
> > > That was 6 * 7 (!),
> >
> > No, it _is_ 6 * 9, extracted from arthur's head using scrabble letters.
> > The full question is: "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?"
>
> Which book are you reading? That's certainly not in the copy I have in
> front of me (no reference to scrabble at all). Perhaps it was in the
> radio or TV show? Or do they get into his head in a later book?
>
> Richard
It _is_ a later book - this was in The Restaurant at the End of
Universe, right at the end.
m&f
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