Life, the Universe, and 42
The writings of Douglas Adams have always fascinated me. For starters I quote this from my all time fav "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy".
"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
Mathematicians might not be very happy with this proof, but to me, Douglas is god, and what he writes is final *Period* Being an ardent fan of H2G2 I was always intrigued by 42. So I thought, why not put together some interesting 42 trivia ... so here we are
42 is the size of my shirt
There were 42 students in my undergrad class
My phone number is 6948573. These digits add up to 42!
haha ... sorry for these ... lets get to some interesting trivia
42 is the number of dots on a pair of dice
Amitabh Bacchan,my fav actor, was born in 1942, and so were Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, and Muhammad Ali
Dogs have 42 teeth
It takes 42 muscles to frown
Saurav Ganguly, my fav cricketer, has an ODI average of 42
Ostrich eggs take 42 days to hatch
The extended right arm of the statue of liberty is 42 feet long
Roosevelt was the youngest American president at 42 years old
The greatest longevity of a sperm inside a female turkey is 42 days
Elvis Presley died at the age of 42. His father also died at 42
Firearms are used in 42% of family murders
On an average it takes 42 coffee beans to make an espresso
1 ton of recycled glass saves 42Kwh of energy
In "The Nutty Professor", Professor Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) registers as having 42% fat
A tredicillion is 10 raised to the power 42
Douglas was 42years old when his daughter polly was born
The word "honest" appears exactly 42 times in shakespeare's Othello
Gimli killed 42 orks in the battle of Helms Deep
42 was Bach's (of course the composer) favorite number
The angle at which light reflects off of water to create a rainbow is 42 degrees
42 is the natural vibration frequency of human DNA
In "Pulp Fiction", Samuel L. Jackson (Jules) cites Ezekiel 25:17 ("The path of the righteous man ...") and 17+25=42.
In the book "The Catcher in the Rye", Holden Caulfield lies and says that he is 42
Water is most dense at 4.2 degrees celsius
There were 42 events at the first modern Olympics
This sentence is forty two characters long (including spaces)
Three cheers to Douglas Adams and three 14s to all his fans !
"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
Mathematicians might not be very happy with this proof, but to me, Douglas is god, and what he writes is final *Period* Being an ardent fan of H2G2 I was always intrigued by 42. So I thought, why not put together some interesting 42 trivia ... so here we are
42 is the size of my shirt
There were 42 students in my undergrad class
My phone number is 6948573. These digits add up to 42!
haha ... sorry for these ... lets get to some interesting trivia
42 is the number of dots on a pair of dice
Amitabh Bacchan,my fav actor, was born in 1942, and so were Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, and Muhammad Ali
Dogs have 42 teeth
It takes 42 muscles to frown
Saurav Ganguly, my fav cricketer, has an ODI average of 42
Ostrich eggs take 42 days to hatch
The extended right arm of the statue of liberty is 42 feet long
Roosevelt was the youngest American president at 42 years old
The greatest longevity of a sperm inside a female turkey is 42 days
Elvis Presley died at the age of 42. His father also died at 42
Firearms are used in 42% of family murders
On an average it takes 42 coffee beans to make an espresso
1 ton of recycled glass saves 42Kwh of energy
In "The Nutty Professor", Professor Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) registers as having 42% fat
A tredicillion is 10 raised to the power 42
Douglas was 42years old when his daughter polly was born
The word "honest" appears exactly 42 times in shakespeare's Othello
Gimli killed 42 orks in the battle of Helms Deep
42 was Bach's (of course the composer) favorite number
The angle at which light reflects off of water to create a rainbow is 42 degrees
42 is the natural vibration frequency of human DNA
In "Pulp Fiction", Samuel L. Jackson (Jules) cites Ezekiel 25:17 ("The path of the righteous man ...") and 17+25=42.
In the book "The Catcher in the Rye", Holden Caulfield lies and says that he is 42
Water is most dense at 4.2 degrees celsius
There were 42 events at the first modern Olympics
This sentence is forty two characters long (including spaces)
Three cheers to Douglas Adams and three 14s to all his fans !
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