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Title    ...but What is the Question?
Date    Monday March 13 2017, @05:11AM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the DNA-is-also-an-author dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/03/12/224251

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/

Original Submission

Added Wikipedia link to the text '42' to explain, for the uninitiated, the HHGttG reference. --Bytram

Links
  1. "42" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_answer_to_life,_the_universe,_and_everything#Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life.2C_the_Universe.2C_and_Everything_.2842.29
  2. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=19065
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