Why 42?

我上初中时看过银河系漫游指南,后来又看了电影。感觉电影没有书有意思。

书中最有意思的是Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything turns out to be 42.

在后来很多地方我都见过有人使用42当作一个“随机”选择的数字选用。

下面是Douglas Adams本人回答的为什么是42。

 

 (Mark J Cherkas) wrote: 

>I am new to this group so bear with this beginners question: 

>Why is the answer 42 ? 

>Has Douglas Adams ever explained this ? 

 

The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an 

ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, 

base thirteen, 

Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, 

stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story. 

Best, 

Douglas Adams 

London, UK                     |   d...@dadams.demon.co.uk (dormant) 

Currently in Santa Fe, NM      |   ada...@nic.cerf.net (current) 

 

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