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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: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday March 13 2017, @06:51AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 13 2017, @06:51AM (#478324) Journal

    Of course the real question is: "Think of a number. Any number."

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
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