Math Tattoo: 6×9=42 - I am sure there is a deep meaning to this
June 24th, 2008 Posted in Tuesday Physics Tattoos
Is it because answer to every question is 42?
The number 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
May be stylized 6 and 9 are not numbers at all but represent something else. 6×9 =42 in some different base numbers.
OK, I got it; from the Restaurant at the End of the Universe book:
Arthur pulls random letters from a bag, but only gets the sentence “WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE?”
“ “Six by nine. Forty two.”
“That’s it. That’s all there is.”
“I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe
Sometimes I do think that there is something fundamentally wrong with the Universe.
July 6th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Just use base as 13
July 6th, 2008 at 9:46 am
thanks but the author of the book specifically said that he did not use base 13 or any other tricks; he just pulled it out of thin air and said that”42 is a nice number, it is a kind of number that you can take home to meet your parents”.
August 10th, 2008 at 10:03 am
this is my thought:
x6
9
—
42
or (6)Six n (9)Nine is (4)for (2)two
or a 69 is for 2
August 11th, 2008 at 6:36 am
think literature:
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
The answer to the universe is 42.
Only problem is, no one knows what the question is.
August 12th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I bet it’s the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything!
August 15th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
6 x 9 = 42 in base 13
August 16th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
6×9 = 54 :S