Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)
Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:10:43PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
> > Chris Jenks wrote:
> > >
> > > I thought that the book said the book said that the ultimate question
> > > is, "what is 6 * 9?"
> >
> > That was 6 * 7 (!),
>
> No, it _is_ 6 * 9, extracted from arthur's head using scrabble letters.
> The full question is: "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?"
Which book are you reading? That's certainly not in the copy I have in
front of me (no reference to scrabble at all). Perhaps it was in the
radio or TV show? Or do they get into his head in a later book?
Richard
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