Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site gtss.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!gtss!chas From: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: 42 (rated R) Message-ID: <141@gtss.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 16:54:33 EDT Article-I.D.: gtss.141 Posted: Thu Sep 26 16:54:33 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 07:49:25 EDT References: <114@decvax.UUCP> <5980001@acf4.UUCP> Reply-To: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland) Organization: Georgia Tech Surface Studies Lines: 18 In article <5980001@acf4.UUCP> percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus) writes: >> What is this silly subject doing in net.math?? > >Trying to explain how 6 x 9 = 42. > A. G. Percus > (ARPA) percus@acf4 > (NYU) percus.acf4 > (UUCP) ...!ihnp4!cmcl2!acf4!percus I haven't been paying attention to this discussion lately, and maybe this is in "Hitchhiker's Guide", but 6 x 9 = 42 in base 13. -- Charles Cleveland Georgia Tech Surface Studies Georgia Tech School of Physics Atlanta, GA 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!gtss!chas ...!{rlgvax,sb1,uf-cgrl,unmvax,ut-sally}!gatech!gtss!chas chas%gtss@gatech.CSNET gtss!chas%gatech.CSNET@csnet-relay.ARPA Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com