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Douglas Noel Adams
FORTY TWO!!!
since
January 2000.Of course, in the original Hitchhiker's Guide radio scripts, when Arthur has the "cave man" put out Scrabble stones and the sentence "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" emerges, and then Arthur says "Six by nine? Forty-two? You know, I've always felt that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Universe." -- it is at this point that a faint and distant voice says "base thirteen!".
42 (base 13) is equal to 54 (base 10). (Of Course -- Douglas Adams has been quoted as saying " You
just don't write jokes in base 13!" )
To dispel any myths about 42
(and to make Douglas Adams Happy!), Douglas
Adams also wrote on USENET: The answer to this is very simple. It was a
joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one.
Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense.
I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed
it out. End of story
If You have found some of DEEP Thought's calculations lying around, please make a note of them and send them to me
This page is dedicated to the admirable works of Douglas Adams, the well renowned author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (the increasingly innaccurately named Hitchhiker Trilogy), etc.
The following is a list of the places where DEEP Thought has
accumulated the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything throughout the
world.
EARLIEST RECORDED SIGHTING
B + A + C + H
2 + 1 + 3 + 8 = 14 and 14 x 3 = 42
(Check out Nora K.
Loyd's Page for this equation illustrated, plus a more dubious way of
arriving at 42 involving Bach.)
"The beast was given a mouth uttering proud boasts and blasphemies,
and it was given authority to act for forty-two months" Revelation
13:5
Forty-two months was how long the profanation of the holy city
was to last Revelation
11:2
Twelve hundred and sixty days (forty-two months) was the length
of the prophetic mission of the two witnesses.Revelation
11:3
Twelve hundred and sixty days (forty-two months), is the length
of the retreat to the desert the woman goes on to escape the Serpent.Revelation
12:6-14
"But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not
measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the
holy city underfoot for forty-two months."Revelation
11:2
The Torah (the holy book of Judaism) is broken into columns, each of
which always have exactly *42* lines of Hebrew!
It took God 6 days to create the universe. He rested on the 7th day
which is considered to be a holy day by many. 6*7 =42!
The phrase "In the beginning the Universe was created." - including
the spaces and the period (but not the quotes) contains 42 characters!
I R O N S U L F I D E
9 18 15 14 19 21 12 6 9 4 5Now then, Adding up
the first 3 digits yields a total of 42. Adding up the next 3 digits
makes 54, which is what 42 would be in base 10, if 42 was
originally written as base 13 (The significance of which is widely known).
Adding up the rest gets you 36, which is 42 written in base 12.
An interesting and oft-cited factoid states that when asked to choose
a random number between 1 and 20, 17 is the number most often chosen. A quick
examination reveals the following: The problem is:
Prove that for any value of 'n', as long as it is a whole
number, (n^7-n) must always be a multiple of 42.
4^2 = 2^4. Other than 24, this is the only non-palindromic two-digit
number for which that is true
if you assign the alphabetical value of to the letters of the words:
BIG BANG (or GNAB GIB) you get 2+9+7+2+1+14+7 which equals to, indeed,
42
They've found a star that has a planet circling around it for the
first time. Distance to this star: 42 light-years
A grad student at UVic says that the lifetime of the universe will be
10^42 years. Note that this is the lifetime, not the age...
Propane boils at -42 C
The maximum temperature in degrees celsius a human can survive in case
of a disease is (of course) 42 degrees celsius !
The REAL Hubble is (d / s) distance over speed of galaxies. As we
cannot measure the speed accurately, the Constant is not known but scientists
think it is betwixt 100 and 40, therefore it could be FORTY-TWO.
42
is the Number of Great Lakes areas Of Concern
If you take the number 'PI' as 3.14, and multiply the whole part (3)
by the decimal part (14), 3 X 14 --> 42
The Specific heat capacity of water is 4200 J/kg
oC(Jewls/Kilograms x degrees celsius)
If you drilled a hole through the Earth from one point to another, and
that hole was frictionless, it would take 42 minutes for gravity to
move you from you side of the tunnel to the other. That also goes for
satellites orbiting the Earth with only gravity moving them.
The galaxy M84 (Messier Catalog) is 42 x 10^6 light years
distant. It is an elliptical galaxy in Virgo with a diameter of 25,000 light
years
Two physical constants in the universe are the speed of light and
thediameter of a proton. It takes light 10 to the minus 42nd power
seconds tocross the diameter of a proton.
The Earth is sometimes referred to as the third stone (or rock, if
you're a Jimi Hendrix fan) from the sun. A stone (British measurement system)
is 14 pounds, so we have 3 x 14 = 42
The world record in memorizing PI is quoted, from the Chicago
Sun-Time, to be "over 42,000"
All dogs have a total of 42 teeth over their lifetimes
The average dormancy of an active volcano is 42 years.
The fastest speed for a land animal for 1 mile is 42mph
(Guiness, page 59).
Greatest recorded distance covered by one jump of a kangaroo is 42
feet (Guiness, page 71).
The longest lava flow recorded is 42 miles (Guiness, page 129).
The worlds widest conveyor belt is 42 feet wide (Guiness, page
335).
The largest shoes ever sold were size 42 (Guiness, page 361).
A barrel contains 42 gallons.
The time it took for one person to eat an entire ox was 42
hours (Guiness, page 492)
42 occurs infinitely many times in then number PI.
When PI is rounded to the third decimal place contains the number
42
Consider the following: ( ( 1 * 2 * 3 ) - 4 + 5 ) * 6 = 42
In reverse polish notation (postfix), used on most HP calculators (and
others), the expression 2 4 2 4 2 * + * +evaluates to 42! (This, of course, is closely related to the fact that the binary number system, 101010 means 42, or that in base 4, 222 means 42). SQRT(41*42+SQRT(41*42+SQRT(41*42+SQRT(...))))=42 where SQRT() means the 'square root' of the bracketed expression. The Efficiency of human respiration is 42 The number of chromosomes of harvested wheat is 42 In the "Tree Information" sketch for Monty Python, the Larch (the one they show over and over again) is tree number 42. 42 in base 4 (222) is the same as in base -5 ie. 54 1 joule is equal to 4.2 calories The following question appears in the Rhind Papyrus, which is the oldest mathematical book known and originated in Egypt in 1650 B.C.: "If a certain number, two-thirds of it, half of it, and a seventh of it are added together, the result is 97." The number, of course, is 42. (x + 2x/3 + x/2 + x/7 = 97 --> x = 42) This was derived from an 8th grade Addison-Wesley Algebra book, page 444. 42 in base 4 is 222 or 4;222. Also, if you multiply or add the digits together, you get the same thing for 42 and 222.
There was one who was famed for the number of things He forgot when he entered the ship: His umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and rings, And the clothes he had bought for the trip. He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed, With his name painted clearly on each: But, since he omitted to mention the fact, They were all left behind on the beach.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy FAQ estimates the cost of dining at Milliway's as being $1.42 x 10^248. In _Rama Revealed_ by Arthur Clarke & Gentry Lee, way at the end when the purpose of the universe has (maybe) been explained to the main character, she muses to herself that it's not forty-two, obviously a nod to HHGTTG. The LaTeX book (1st edition) by Leslie Lamport makes a reference to 42 while discussing the use of references and labels. Its says:
See page 42 for more details. . . Text on page 42: The meaning of life, the universe, and ...In the Grateful Dead image taken from the rubaiyat, there are forty-two roses in full view, not counting the ones in the back ground In A.A. Milne's (The author of "Winnie-the-Pooh") collection of poetry, "Now_We_are_Six", in the poem "The Morning Walk", it says:
When Anne and I go out a walk, We hold each other's hand and talk, Of all the things we mean to do when Anne and I are forty-two.In the play "Shirley Velentine" by Willy Russell, Shirley is 42 years old In Romeo and Juliet, juliet sleeps for 42 hours Dr. Seuss wrote 42 Children's Books In the "Babylon 5" episode "AND NOW FOR A WORD", ISN reporter Cynthia Torqueman (Kim Zimmer) said: "Aliens make up roughly 42 percent of Babylon 5's population. Stavro Mueller's club "Beta" happens to have a street address of 42 as stated by Ford Prefect in book 5 of the increasingly innaccurately named Hitchhiker Trilogy: "Mostly Harmless"--"`Just there, number forty-two,' shouted Ford Prefect to the taxi-driver. `Right here!'" On the season premiere of X-Files, The room where Skinner and Scully are at the end of the show is room 42 In the movie Aliens (Sigourney Weaver), when Ripley is being shown how to use the machine gun, there are 42 rounds left in the clip. You can see 42 on the read-out on the side. For the 1995-96 Fall TV Season there were 42 new shows In the episode of "Welcome Back Kotter" in which Kotter performs at a comedy club "Amateur Night" with his "uncle" jokes, he gets heckled off the stage by Mr. Woodwind (the principle), and as he departs in embarassment, Mr. Woodwind yells, "Bring on number 43!"--meaning, in Mr. Woodwind's head, at least, Mr. Kotter was the 42nd comedian. In the movie Assassins, Sylvester Stallone hops into cab #42 to get away from the cops 42 is used as part a of secret passcode in the movie Assassins The 1971 top grossing film about a teenage boy, Hermie, who falls in love with a young woman, Aggie, whose husband is off fighting the war - "Summer of '42" on Friday Dec 1, 1995 on Fox on the X-Files: When Mulder looked at the time bomb for the first time, It was exactly 1:42:00 until it would explode At the end of the first X-files episode, evidence is placed in the box to the left of nr. 10042 In `Twin Peaks', episode 2007 (first time aired on 11/10/90; written by Mark Frost, directed by David Lynch): Shelly Johnson and Bobby Briggs pay the bills and end up with $42 instead of expected some hundred (thousand?) A favorite quote from W.C.Fields: "I'd rather have two girls of twenty-one each, than one girl of forty-two!" In the movie 'Ace Ventura; Pet Detective' the routine being rehearsed by the dolphin is called "Blue 42". On the TV show "3rd Rock From The Sun" (which is about aliens coming to Earth and taking on the guise of Earthlings for the sake of studying same) when the Commander of the alien task force is asked his (earth) age, he replies, "42." Murphy Brown (TV-series) gets seated at table 42 during a Presidental dinner she gets invited to by Corky Malcom Learty pays 42 dollars for the board of his dog Edward in the movie "The Accidental Tourist" In the comic strip "Curtis," Curtis recently remarked that the "cat woman" who lived upstairs had 42 cats Towards the end of "Paper Moon," Tatum O'Neil counts the money in her cigar box. It's eight hundred and some-odd dollars -- "and 42 cents. "...watch a garage mechanic get broken into 42 pieces" -- Howard Cunningham to Arthur Fonzarelli when hearing that he was going to attempt to jump 14 garbage cans A student-magazine of physics-students at the University of Oldenburg in Germany is called 'ZWEIUNDVIERZIG' which is German for forty-two 4242 are the first four digits on the prison uniform of Sean Penn in the movie, "We're No Angels" In the book "The Catcher in the Rye", Holden Caulfield lies and says that he is 42 In the film, "True Colors," the room number of James Spader and John Cusick at University of Virginia is 42 On the Warren Zevon album "Sentimental Hygiene" there's a song titled "Even A Dog Can Shake Hands" about the way famous people are treated. The chorus is a discussion of a contract which begins with the lines:'Sign Page 42, We'll do the rest for you' In the movie "Powder", the scene where powder is walking down the tracks, he passes a metal bridge. On the right side there are two numbers scrawled. One of them is 42 On the television show "Martin" his apartment door is FORTY TWO The number 42 has appeared on the apartment door of the main character in the movie "Naked Lunch" In the movie "Die Hard with a Vengence" one of the riddles was, "What is half of 42?" The number 42 on the bomb in the the 21 school in "Die Hard with a Vengence", which is half of 42. Steven lives in apartment number 42 in the movie "Cable Guy" The Number of People marked for death in The Movie "THE FRIGHTENERS" is 42 In 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe', When they retrieve Marvin in the parking of the restaurant, Marvin says Trillian he is there for a very long time : exactly 576000003579 years, which sum of the digits is ... 42. Popular beat-combo R.E.M. have a b-side track called "Forty Second Song" which is not forty seconds long. It can be found on the "Losing My Religion" single. In Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a potion to make it appear that she is dead, so she will not have to marry Count Paris. He promises the potion's effects will last for "two and forty", or 42 hours! On the episode of "Home Improvement" where Tim races Bob Villa on lawn mowers, Bob says that his lawn mower was clocked at 42 miles per hour. In Peter Greenaway's latest film "Pillow Book" 42 is written on a mirror. On a recient sliders episode Quinn walks into a hotel room numbered 42! In "Black Adder", series 2, episode 5 : BEER - The black adder is having a beer drinking contest with Melchett. Black adder is trying to avoid drinking any because it effects him so greatly. When he eventually drinks the beer a caption appears on the screen saying "42 seconds later", when the screen fades back in, Edmund is stone drunk In the movie "Mask" his friend said about saving for the bike trip "How much do we have saved? $36?" "No, $42" In the episode of Chicago Hop "The Ethics" Dr. Kate Austin said, "The patient is dead. Time of death is 8:42" The CD "Nevermind" by Nirvana is exactly 42 minutes 38 seconds long The woodstock '94 live version of "Happiness In Slavery" by Nine Inch Nails is 5 minutes 42 seconds long There were 42 extras on the set of Jabba's palace in "Return of the Jedi"(From a making of video). The catalog # for the US version of Pink Floyd's "The Divsion Bell" (DNA played on this tour in London) is 64200! In the Animaniacs episode named 'Hercule Yakko' (or was it Hercule Warner?), Wakko orders 42 pizzas (6 w/o crusts!) In the book Homer Price, by Robert McCloskey, the settlers sing a song about mushrooms, 42 pounds of edible fungus, in the wilderness a-growin' In the movie "The Abyss", the destroyer that teeters on the edge of the alien city (near the end of the movie) when it comes top-side is destroyer number 421 There are 42 pen-like objects on pages 68 and 69 of the Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy In "Dave's World" chapter about Valentine's Day, Dave's kid makes 42 valentine's day cards! In the movie "BLUE IN THE FACE", a ghost of the first African American Major League Baseball player is seen from the back...his number of course 42. In "The Two Towers", the second volume of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings," at the beginning of Chapter 8 of book III, the count of Orks slain by Gimli the Dwarf at the battle of Helm's Deep: "Forty two!" In the "How not to be seen" sketch for Monty python, the sketch is labeled as "Governmental Information Program 42". In the 1996 Eddie Murphy version of "The Nutty Professor", Professor Sherman Klump registers as having 42% fat. In the Movie "The Frighteners", the number of people who are marked for death before The Frightener is killed is.... 42
"How many rings have you got to sell?"
"Forty two."
"Forty two?"
In the ST:TNG episode where Data is added to the trader's collection,
the tricyanate concentration in the water is 42 parts per million
In the Star Trek episode 'The best of both worlds pt.2', the
Enterprise is chasing the Borg. At a certain point, Acting Captain Riker asks
how long it will take for the Borg to reach Earth. '27 minutes' is the reply.
When he asks how long it will take for the Enterprise, the answer is
'42 minutes'
In the movie "Star Trek: Generations" while Picard and Data are in
stellar cartography Picard asks, "How long until the energy ribbon enters this
sector?" The answer: "Approximately 42 hours"
Episode 42 of Star trek:tng introduses the Borg
Episode 42 of Deep Space 9 introduces the alternate universe.
There is a British series called "4.2 Children"
D. A D A M S
4 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 13 + 19 = 42
Marsha Clark, the prosecutor on the O.J. Simpson Trial, is 42
years old
The cop that found the body of Nicole Brown-Simpson had been a police
officer for 4 years 2 months
Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play Major League
Baseball, wore uniform number 42 for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Bill Clinton is the 42nd President of the United States
The only openly gay baseball player died at age 42.
On July 14, 1995, David Letterman's Top Ten list was "Top Ten Ways To
Beat The Heat" and on number 2 there was:"Get your own talk show, set yourself
up in a 42 degree theatre."
On David Letterman's second "Late Show" at CBS (in 1993), his guest
Robin Williams made some jokes about NASA's lost Mars probe. He said: "You
know, even your shorts have a little thing that says 'Inspected by number
42'!"
Today's SJ Mercury News says that Mark Furman said "The 'N' Word"
42 times during his interviews with the scriptwriter lady
Recent Citadel dropout Shannon Faulkner was expected to complete 18
pushups in two minutes as part of her physical entrance exam. This was the
special, GIRLIE number of pushups, reduced from the male pushup standard
of--you got it--42
Kyle Petty's NASCAR Winston Cup race car number is 42.
Apollo 13's commander, Jim Lovell, at the age of 42 was the
most experienced astronaut alive; Apollo 13 was his fourth space mission and
his second lunar voyage. The year: 1970.-- Popular Science July 1995 p 52:
On day 142 of the O.J. Simpson trial, defense attorney Johnny Cochran
asked screenwriter Laura Hart McKinney how often the "N"-word was said in the
conversation she overheard. Her answer was: "Approximately 42 times."
Jimi Hendrix was born in 1942.
U.S Marshal William Degan, was 42 when he was killed at Ruby
Ridge
In the OJ Trail: the defense wanted to introduce 42 special
jury instructions
Jerry Garcia was born in 1942
The actress who plays Rachel on the NBC-TV show "Friends", Jennifer
Anniston, was born on February 11, 1969. February 11, I don't have to tell you
was the 42nd day of '69
Marsha Clark got a $4.2 million advance on a book deal about
the O.J. Simpson Trial
In Michael Jordan's first game in the 95-96 basketball season he
scored 42 points.
Pierce Brosan, Age 42, stars as the new the James Bond, in
"Golden Eyes"
In the latest James Bond Film "Goldeneye" the Bad guy says to Bond
that he has 16 minutes and 43....correction 42 seconds to save the
world.
Elvis Presley died at the age of 42
Elvis' father died at age 42.
Henry Kissinger wears a size 42 jacket
Patty Hearst invoked the 5th Amendment 42 times at her trial
Mo Vaughn, the 1995 American League M.V.P. wears the number 42
James Earl Jones' high-school basketball jersey number was 42
Muhammad Ali was born in 1942
Paul McCartney was born in 1942
Weird Al's "Fat" shadow weighs 42 lbs.
The only NHL hockey team to ever come back from a 3-0 deficit in The
Stanley Cup Finals was The Toronto Maple Leafs. The year, 1942.
Chris Warren, Seattle Seahawks RB, wears jersey #42. He is the
best RB available in the Sega game Madden '96. ultimate_answer_t deep_thought(void)
{
sleep(years2secs(7500000));
return 42;
}
42 is used as the channel idle pattern in the UK ISDN access
protocol (DASS2). The Euro-standard pattern is supposed to be 0x54
In Germany, the dimensions of Computer-Monitors must be printed in
centimeters AND Inches, which follows to this relationship: A 17"-Monitor, a
common size for computer displays, has a screen-diagonal of 42 cm.
42 is the number in the header file of a Tiff file that
identifies the file
In the Macintosh game Cogito the background reads 42.
On the top right side of the February 1994 issue of PC WORLD magazine
is stated: "42 Business shareware packages"
Apple filed 42 patents on technology developed for its Color
LaserWriter 12/600 PS
The latest data compression and error correction protocol for modems
is called "V.42bis" and is the current computer standard
In the German computer magazine "OS/2 Inside", issue 7/95, there was a
listing of computer mailboxes (BBS). One of these is called "42´er" and
is located in the city of Ludwigshafen. The phone number is +49-7141-921269
(14.4K) and +49-7141-950971 (ISDN)
The most successful electron tube for audio applications in the 1930's
was a "type 42" six-pin amplifier
RSA developed 42 potential systems for public-key crypto before
building one that could not be cracked.
It took the hosts of a local Los Angeles radio talk show (called "The
Computer Guys") 42 minutes to install Windows 95
PsyScope, a psychology program for the Macintosh, uses 42
internally to verify program structures
Several years ago, a popular ram expansion unit for the Commodore 64
was sold by Commodore. In fact, I believe its still one of the most popular
REU's for the C-64/65/128. Its model number is 1764, as 42^2 = 1764!!
In the majority of commonly used character sets, the asterisk, "*" is
character number 42. And, as we all know, the asterisk is commonly used
as a wildcard character. It stands for anything, and, consequently,
everything. The answer to life, the universe, and everything. Most of the
visible objects in the Universe are stars.
An Aldus/Microsoft Technical Memorandum: 8/8/88., This memorandum has
been prepared jointly by Aldus and Microsoft in conjunction with leading
scanner vendors and other interested parties -- States: ...
Bytes 2-3 The second word of the file is the TIFF _version
number._ This number, 42 (2A in hex), is not to be equated
with the current Revision of the TIFF specification. In
fact, the TIFF version number (42) has never changed, and
probably never will. If it ever does, it means that TIFF has
changed in some way so radical that a TIFF reader should
give up immediately. The number 42 was chosen for its deep
philosophical significance. It can and should be used as
additional verification that this is indeed a TIFF file.
...
The most common telephone insulator (US) - the old blue-green type was
a Hemingray 42.
The toolbar button with ID 42 in Microsoft Excel has a toolface saying
42.
Apple sells QuickTime Denim Shirts for $42
Prodigy has a free demo which states "Get started in 4.2
minutes."
424242 as a hexidecimal backcolour in html is a very depressing
grey....for proof see http://orca.ucd.ie/~amoull/towel.html
When Webcrawler is searched for keyword "Webcrawler", it returns
4200 documents
The Number 42 is the total capacity in gigabytes (GB), Toshiba
expects for blue-laser-read Super Density Digital Videodisc formats. From Nov.
1995 Video Magazine, page 17
The "Quickworks" FPGA design software from QuickLogic Corp. holds two
seed numbers for the chip layout algorithms to work. These two seeds may be
set by the user but they are by default 42. As the manual states "for
important historical (although completely meaningless) reasons".
The icon for an external modem outlet is a phone with a 101010, or
42 in binary.
The control panel MacPPP on the Macintosh reads under default settings
the magic number seed value 42
As of the 18th of June, 1996, there are exactly 42 documents on
the Yahoo search engine that contain the string "42". 06420 Lebendorf (Leben = life),
06542 Allstedt (All = universe) and
88422 Alleshausen (Alles = everything).
Now what do these postcodes have in common? And these 3 cities are
located on a straight line and do not form a triangle as you would expect!
There is a Night Club in Johannesburg, South Africa, named Level
42, after HHGTTG.
There is a bar/night club in Lyon, France called "the 42"
The sentence "I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it!"
contains 42 characters (Not including the spaces....)
This sentence is forty two characters long
The city of Jerusalem covers an area of 42 square miles
Mongolia is 42% urban
Napoleon graduated 42nd in his class at Brienne military school
The first book printed on the Gutenburg (movable type) press was a
bible with42 lines on each page
Aloutte, Canada's first artificial space satellite was 42
inches in diameter
Cleopatra became Marc Anthony's mistress in 42BC
On Nov 11, there are 42 days to Christmas
When you reach the California border, you only have 42 miles to
go to Las Vegas
In an L.A. Times Poll in October 1995, 42% of white people
think racism is a major problem, another 42% think it's a moderate
problem
Only 42% of the second-class passengers on the Titanic
survived.
Recently, within the past few years, for some strange reason, Truck
Drivers, and now acknowleging each other with "42" in lue of "10-4".
There were a number of UFO sightings in Iceland in 1942!
There are 42 gallons in a barrel of oil
'TRY TWO OF'is an anagram for "forty two" ! This must mean that
the answer 42 was the result of the second calculation in a series of
.... (who knows?)
FISH = 42 by: F I S H
6 + 9 + 19 + 8 = 42
The tank of the Super Beetle 1302 S takes 42 liters!
How many eyes are there in a deck of cards - 42
A Playtex Wonderbra® consists of
42 individual parts
Miller Pilsner has 4.2% alcohol
Water at the Sea World Penguin Exhibitin San Diego is kept at
42 degrees Fahrenheit
The right arm of the Statue of Liberty is 42 feet long
There were 42 events at the first modern Olympics
There are 42 Oreo cookies in a one-pound package
There's an American company in Poland which is named XLII Ltd.
(42).
In the game chess the maximum number of queens that you can place on
the board and still have one "safe" square is 42. e.g.: e q q q q q q e e q q q q q e q e q q q q e q q e q q q e q q q e q q e q q q q e q e q q q q q e e q q q q q q s e e e e e e e q = queen e = empty s = safeThe average age for a pikka bird is 42 The America's Cup yachts must meet the following specification:
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