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Math Tattoo: 6×9=42 - I am sure there is a deep meaning to this

June 24th, 2008 Posted in Tuesday Physics Tattoos

6x9_42_tattoo

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:

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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

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Sometimes I do think that there is something fundamentally wrong with the Universe.

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10 Responses to “Math Tattoo: 6×9=42 - I am sure there is a deep meaning to this”

  1. Sameer Says:

    Just use base as 13 :P


  2. Sunny Kalara Says:

    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”.


  3. Gdevo Says:

    this is my thought:
    x6
    9

    42

    or (6)Six n (9)Nine is (4)for (2)two

    or a 69 is for 2


  4. marytrobot Says:

    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.


  5. paperjam Says:

    I bet it’s the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything!


  6. base13 Says:

    6 x 9 = 42 in base 13


  7. Mhmm Says:

    6×9 = 54 :S


  8. Jane the bane Says:

    Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the best book ever. (it was a radio show first, did you know?)


  9. Torun Says:

    Det meaning of life is the 69-position:)


  10. spacecho42 Says:

    It is the answer! It is the answer to life, the universe and everything!
    Look at everything, not in base 13, but just with a clear eye and you will find it. Can’t you see it?
    It is simple, Clear as water. easy as abc, 123.
    (In my entire life, I only met one guy who knows just I do, that is why I’m not going to tell it.)
    Reading the Holy Bible might help you a little bit, specially the Gospel according to Matthew and the Revelation, the part of the number of the beast. Have you noticed that 6*6+6 = 42??


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