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Life, the Universe, and Everything
Posted By: John W., on host 198.146.126.132
Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998, at 20:01:41

In one of the Hitchiker books (I don't remember which one, but I would guess that it was "Life, the Universe, and Everything"), the main idea was that, after spending eons calculating the great Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, the greatest computer said that it was "42." But what was the question?

"How many roads must a man walk?" has already been used.

Elementary arithmatic questions are too obvious, and wouldn't take the greatest biological computer in existance billions of years to calculate, either.

So what could it possibly be? Any creative ideas out there?


(BTW, it's been many years since I've read the 4 or 5 books in the trilogy, so please correct me if I've made any mistakes.)

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