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...but What is the Question?

posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 13 2017, @05:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the DNA-is-also-an-author dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Mathematician John Baez presents a delightful and beautifully illustrated version of the ultimate question... http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/42.html for which the answer is 42.

Hint -- it's 2D geometry. And maybe the mice should have been bargaining with Zaphod for his brain instead of for Arthur Dent's brain.

Lots more math & physics fun on his pages, I also enjoyed http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/rolling/

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Added Wikipedia link to the text '42' to explain, for the uninitiated, the HHGttG reference. --Bytram
 
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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @09:08AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @09:08AM (#478342)

    "I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base 13." -- Douglas Adams

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday March 13 2017, @06:37PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday March 13 2017, @06:37PM (#478560)

    Yup, it's like rationalizing a shrubbery or the cutting of a tree with a herring.