‘The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be 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.’ - Douglas Adams, putting to rest notions of any deeper meanings behind 42 in Hitchhiker’s.
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Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax