lewis%su-shasta@spider.UUCP (01/27/84)
I have always felt that 42 is not the answer, 42 is the error code!
The only reason it took so long to reach this "answer" is that the real
answer to "life, the universe and everything" IS life, the universe and
everything. It just took the computer a long time to verify that there
isn't any more to it than that.
As a comic doing a philosopher impression once said: "You may wonder why I
have chosen to speak about the Universe... There isn't anything else."
As to whether 42 is any better that 47, somewhere I have a "proof" that
17 is the largest number... How about 17?
- Suford
decwrl!rhea!spider!lewis@ShastaDBarker@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA (01/30/84)
The reason the asnwer is 42 is easily discovered in the I Ching,
hexagram 42 is Change" characterised (in the Wilhelm translation) as the
underlying structure and process of the Universe - need I say more?
deryk barker.