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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: 42 (rated R)
Message-ID: <114@decvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 19:49:05 EDT
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** Spoiler warning -- the following should not be read unless you
** have already read Douglas Adam's Hitch-hiker's Guide to the
** Galaxy.

A recent questioner asked what was the significance of the number 42
(given in Hitch-Hiker's as the answer to the question about Life, the
Universe, and Everything).  According to the book, this is what you
get when you multiply 6 times 9.

According to someone who asked the author at a Science-Fiction convention,
the British Medical Society recommends that a woman refrain from
sexual intercourse for six weeks after giving birth.

Martin Minow
decvax!minow


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