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Subject: Re: Plan 5 for Inner Space - HAL_from_IBM_P - The Benzene Ring - Mice
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Date: Tue, 20-May-86 14:12:35 EDT
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In article <1919@ihlpg.UUCP>, tainter@ihlpg.UUCP (Tainter) writes:
>> "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

   Actually, 42 is correct if you're talking in base 13.

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Robert Bickford     {lll-crg,hplabs}!well!rab