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Subject: Re: The base is thirteen
Message-ID: <522@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Nov-83 01:07:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  8 01:07:01 1983
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While attending school here I have run across many people who
stated that 9 X 6 = 42 base 13 and understanding that this came
from Hitchhiker which I had not yet read. Well I finially read
the trilogy last weekend (No, I don't fool around with Science
Fiction.) When I read the last (third) book it quite clearly
stated that we could never know both the question and the answer
at the same time. Remember in book two Authur Dent came across
the question while playing scrabble TWO MILLION YEARS before the
Earth got done calculating the question for the mice. Thus you
can't consider this a serious question.
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Sincerely;
Greg Hennessy
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