And check out the first two religious meanings for 42: In Japanese, pronouncing the two digits is the same as the word for death. In Egypt, 42 questions are asked of a dead person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)#Religion
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Jack J. Woehr <j...@well.com> wrote: > On 11/30/2017 2:47 AM, Edward Gould wrote: >> >> I know I shouldn’t ask but what is “42”. > > > The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, as revealed by Deep > Thought in Douglas Adams's _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_. > > Another computer was then built to discover what indeed is the Question to > Life, the Universe, and Everything. > > "Computers are useless, they can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso > > -- > Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of > www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the > universe > www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl > Sagan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
