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Subject: Re: Plan 5 for Inner Space - HAL_from_IBM_P - The Benzene Ring - Mice
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Date: Thu, 15-May-86 11:28:05 EDT
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> "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
delete:> "Forty-six."
insert:"Forty-Two? Six by Nine, Forty Two?!"
> "That's it. That's all there are."
append:"I always knew there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe."
> 
> By picking the stones at random out of the bag, Arthur Dent thought he
> had come up with The Question. Arthur C. Clarke subconciously came up with
> the string "HAL". Kekule came up with ring structure of the benzene molecule
> in his sleep, by dreaming about serpents. Douglas Adams thought he had come
> up with The Answer, but you have to add four to get it right. Did "Deep
Try adding 12 (54 - 42 = 12), not 4.
> Thought" design Douglas Adams or was it the other way around? As he pointed
> out, the experiments that the mice perform in laboratories on the scientists
> are particularly subtle.
> 
> The Joka.
--j.a.tainter