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
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