On 26/05/13 16:54, Hao Wu wrote: > Thanks for sharing. > > I think Moritz's answer is great. I may change 'a'.ord - 1 to 96 because I > know the ascii code for a, which was a question in my exam. > > However, why 42? any relation to meaning of life? It seems I miss > something. Thanks.
This is a reference to douglas adams his book 'the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy', in the book the meaning of 'life, the universe and everything' was found to be '42', but nobody new what the question was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_%28number%29#The_Hitchhiker.27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy