42 has to be mystical. It is said that every human over the age of 43 has been age 42. Coincidence? I think not.
@cuaroz5808
8 жыл бұрын
Illuminazi confiemed?
@cuaroz5808
8 жыл бұрын
Benjamin Abruzzo, don't believe what Steven Moore says! He's probably just a commie!
@Mzansi74
8 жыл бұрын
lol
@douglaslawrence6580
8 жыл бұрын
My thumbs up brought the total to 55. If we can work in the 23 enigma as well then my life's work is just about complete.
@ianmarkhammes2071
7 жыл бұрын
Benjamin Abruzzo At first, I thought this was just a rumor until it happened to me.
@horchcorpse5515
10 жыл бұрын
M (13th letter of the alphabet) A (1st) T (20th) H (8th) = 42
@Mrtaco-bs1lg
7 жыл бұрын
my brain
@VibratorDefibrilator
7 жыл бұрын
EARTH = 52... How typical.
@kacee3472
7 жыл бұрын
😱
@per-axelskogsberg3861
7 жыл бұрын
Illuminati confirmed
@YourNickIsTaken
7 жыл бұрын
perl -e 'print length "Answer to Life the Universe and Everything"'
@philjamieson5572
4 жыл бұрын
When I heard that Douglas Adams had died (and at such an unbelievably young age), I felt like I'd lost a family member, or a close friend. I think his impact on rational, intelligent people (with a sense of humour) will last forever though.
@jasonmackenzie3912
7 жыл бұрын
I saw a reason for 42 recently: I'm computer programming '42' is the ASCII code for the asterisk (*) which is used as a placeholder for anything. So the answer to life the universe and everything is 'Anything you want it to be.'
@purewater3177
8 жыл бұрын
I keep seeing this number I've been noticing it for years
@CLOUDMODE42
7 жыл бұрын
Carolyn Devins Same here, also my birthdate in my country starts with day then month so it goes 4th of Feb. 4-2-1973. jeje
@frankienphil9261978
8 жыл бұрын
I was so surprised to hear this that I actually did the math, and it's pretty accurate. If you fold a 0.1mm piece of paper 42 times it will actually be 273281.3937795 MILES thick. The distance to the moon on average is 238900 miles give or take a bit.
@atouloupas
8 жыл бұрын
Miles or metres?
@frankienphil9261978
8 жыл бұрын
+Απόστολος Τουλούπας miles (converter app)
@atouloupas
8 жыл бұрын
+frankienphil9261978 Ok👍 I asked because the thickness of the piece of paper was in millimetres
@frankienphil9261978
8 жыл бұрын
+Απόστολος Τουλούπας yeah I converted it to miles, because I'm American and kilometers don't mean a lot to me. I have a great understanding of a mile, kilometer not so much. Also the number in km. is even more ridiculously huge.
@frankienphil9261978
8 жыл бұрын
+World's Biggest Booty Hoes I never even mentioned the Brits. I said that I'm American so km don't mean a lot to me. Metric in general has little meaning to me. The only time I ever use metric is buying soda but even then we switch to oz's. The Brits on the other hand use metric all the time. They even buy gasoline in liters in stead of gallons. They do use miles quite a bit but not exclusively they switch to kilometers when convenient. For example with speed / velocity they use kph far more often than mph. It is very rare to see a speed limit sign is America in kph but they're all over the UK.
@jean-christophefilliatre8907
4 жыл бұрын
Interestingly, the Computer Science academic paper "A Theory of Type Polymorphism in Programming" by Robin Milner, written in 1977, is using 42 in an example on the last page. If I'm correct, this is before HG2G was broadcast on BBC. (Note: this is a landmark paper in the theory of programming languages.)
@philledwith8307
5 жыл бұрын
ASCII language, the original way that computers run, the most basic computer software, in it, 42 is the designation for asterisk. And for most programmers, * means "whatever you want" or "everything", e.g. rm *.doc would remove all files in a directory that follwed the pattern of (some string).doc. So 42 is just a computer's way of saying "the answer is * " in ASCII
@xavierjmj
4 жыл бұрын
Asterisk is also called SPLAT. It's like a wildcard character.
@NewMessage
4 жыл бұрын
Given that the language of the universe is mathematics.... it's hardly surprising that we'd get a numerical answer when we ask it something.
@solwarda2
9 жыл бұрын
According to the book "Pi: A Source Book, by Berggren, Borwein & Borwein", on page 729, it says this: "For those who are familiar with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it is amusing that 042 occurs at the digits ending at the 50 billionth decimal place in each of Pi and 1/Pi-- thereby providing an excellent answer to the ultimate question "What's is forty-two?" Hope, you will find that interesting. Thanks.
@lohphat
9 жыл бұрын
Dr. Adesso can have my number. ANYTIME.
@Fazajaksmok
9 жыл бұрын
How about translating 42 (not as fourty-two but as four two) int japanese? The answer (four two) is "shi ni" which written as shini means death. Considering this, the answer to life is death. How simple and awesome is that!
@csdahzi6793
2 жыл бұрын
8 rows but exclude the first line on the pyramid and you’ll find on each, all the single digits add up to 6, add up the 7 rows of six it comes out as 42 so only 2 and 42 remain
@MorganMMIX
9 жыл бұрын
If you could fold a paper 103 times, it would stretch through the observable universe, but the paper would be less than 1 atom wide
@marcossakaguti
6 жыл бұрын
If you dig a tunnel on the ground until it reaches the other side of the Earth and you jump into it, it will take you 42 minutes to reach the other side. And that is true no matter how long the tunnel is. If you dig it on the equator through the center of the Earth until it reaches the other extremity on the equator, the distance will be the longest but because of the force of gravity, you will travel faster. If you dig a tunnel that doesn't pass through the center of the Earth the distance will be shorter but because gravity is weaker, the travel distance will be longer. But no matter how long the tunnel is, the travel time is always 42 minutes. Also in order to create a rainbow, the angle of diffraction of light inside a water droplet has to be equal to 42°.
@maxdoubled4800
2 жыл бұрын
Life's what ever you want it be 🙃
@JLPicard1648
8 жыл бұрын
Humans were actually NOT part of the calculation: the original inhabitants of Earth were driven to extinction when the Golgafricans landed in England.
@cachotognax3600
8 жыл бұрын
well, humans were a small part of all the life that calculated the question, maybe something survived
@shikhanshu
8 жыл бұрын
According to Douglas Adams himself: 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.
@niclouds5292
8 жыл бұрын
IT'S WIKIPEDIA IT CANT BE TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +Shikhanshu Agarwal
@CJBurkey
8 жыл бұрын
In the books, the question was actually "what's 6x7?"
@bjaurus6375
8 жыл бұрын
Actually CJ the question was "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
@CJBurkey
8 жыл бұрын
Derek Hopkins Really?
@CJBurkey
8 жыл бұрын
Oh, it's base 13.
@MountainHawkPYL
9 жыл бұрын
According to the books, 42 is not the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. It is the "answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything."
Limitation Zero Well, no one knows what the actual question is. :P
@gdesign95
9 жыл бұрын
Robot Jones the question is... what is 6 times 9?
@MountainHawkPYL
9 жыл бұрын
42, in base 13.
@anasaloudeh2371
10 жыл бұрын
The meaning of life=MATH M: 13th letter A: 1st letter T: 20th letter H: 8th letter 13+1+20+8=42!
@dysxSRJEY
9 жыл бұрын
***** 21+21?....yes.....42!
@noyoutube.2024
Ай бұрын
Just English? ?
@stevecarter8810
4 жыл бұрын
I like the way Douglas Adams basically said "It's the job of everyone on earth to make sense out of existence, a job they will fail at" and everyone's running around finding significance in the shape of the apostrophe of the initial "It's"
@mrxmry3264
Жыл бұрын
reminds me of the green pieces of paper that appear in the book :-)
@ciarasookarry
8 жыл бұрын
The video is 8 minutes and 42 seconds long!!! :0
@lisiej4327
8 жыл бұрын
8:41... close enough.
@asue8678
8 жыл бұрын
+Li siej It is 8:42, not 8:41.
@scottmantooth8785
8 жыл бұрын
the last second is considered a pseudosecond... it's not nice to taunt a pseudosecond as they tend to be very emotional and unpredictable in most of their three dimensional construct projections (except when green and on alternate thursdays of leap years)
@aeriumsoft
8 жыл бұрын
I am gonna pretend i understood you.
@scottmantooth8785
8 жыл бұрын
Awsomiihill it's probably better that way
@danohanlon8316
Жыл бұрын
The British writer, author, speaker, actor, intellectual, Stephen Fry, was one of Douglas Adams’s closest friends. Ten or fifteen years or so ago during one of his many interviews on British television, Fry was asked about Adams and the mystical number Forty-two. Fry said this (I paraphrase.) “Under a promise of absolute confidentiality, Douglas told me the answer; and it’s right there in plain sight-right under everybody’s noses. If only they would look! Its incredibly simple. And it’s brilliant.” There is one such simple ~ish analysis which, although a prime contender I still think is wrong; but it postulates that the ASCII code, 42, creates an asterisk (*)-hinting that “42” can mean “anything you want it to mean.” (Source unknown.) That, however being not quite as “simple” as Fry indicated, I think I can beat it. (Spoiler:) In “The Hitchikers Guide,” the key to the whole saga turns out to be the mice! What do mice do all day-every day? They make more mice. The answer “to life, the Universe, and Everything” is not “forty-two”; its “for - two.” Life is for two. The answer is “Love!”
@GreenAliceVerte
5 ай бұрын
I remember that interview and cannot find it anywhere. Was it ever on KZitem? Maybe it was in a behinds the scene somewhere? Loved your answer by the way!
@DavideBaroni
2 ай бұрын
I totally second the "ASCII for asterisk" meaning "Anything you want it to mean", although to me it is "Whatever is there to fulfil the meaning" as it'd be in any boolean search. :)
@finn_underwood
8 жыл бұрын
Common misconception: 42 is the answer to the *GREAT QUESTION OF* life, the Universe, and everything. It is *NOT* the answer to life, the universe, and everything. That was a crucial part of the joke. The supercomputer had to calculate the answer to the question without knowing the question, and arrived at 42. As is later revealed, the question that Earth produced, albeit skewed due to golgafrinchans, was "What do you get when you multiply six by nine." As Arthur says, "I always knew there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe."
@cachotognax3600
8 жыл бұрын
i hate that too, wasn't that the ultimate question however? seems like everyone who reads that book reads something different, that's genius writing if you ask me XD
@CJBurkey
8 жыл бұрын
People have pointed out that (I think) in base 6, the answer is correct, which Douglas Adams said is a major coincidence.
Cody Natof I thought it was 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8... =-1/12
@steffenblake1039
8 жыл бұрын
In unicode, character #42 (0x00A2) is the * symbol, which is used a wildcard symbol in programming and computer languages. So life is what you make of it, and it can be anything you want it to be.
@wykah
6 жыл бұрын
It also means "to multiply" so maybe that's the meaning of life :)
@davidianmusic4869
5 жыл бұрын
Ok, that’s cool.
@ucantSQ
5 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite interpretations. I hadn't thought of the fact that it's the multiplication operator! That's great.
@jean-marcandjoshua-petsjournal
4 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@Chris_Cross
4 жыл бұрын
That's it! That's what I was thinking of. I heard of that ages ago, but I was thinking that it was "42" that was the variable that can stand for anything you want, but it's the "*". Thank you.
@cagedlemp5184
9 жыл бұрын
"What number is funnier than 42?" 25.
@SlingerMarshall
9 жыл бұрын
Caged Lemp eleventeen
@vicksterhawk
9 жыл бұрын
Slinger Marshall eleventy is too :)
@Elosva
9 жыл бұрын
Caged Lemp 27
@cameodamaneo
9 жыл бұрын
+Caged Lemp I was looking for this comment. I just KNEW it was going to be here!
@bigbenhebdomadarius6252
8 жыл бұрын
+vicki talbot Eleventy-eleven.
@777static777
9 жыл бұрын
"What number is funnier than 42?" How does your mind not instantly jump to 69?
@jamief415
9 жыл бұрын
no
@777static777
9 жыл бұрын
Jamie Fendt Ok grumpy cat, name me a number funnier than 69 - there aren't exactly that many funny numbers going around
@Joso997
9 жыл бұрын
21
@777static777
9 жыл бұрын
Jetserpent Why 21?
@Joso997
9 жыл бұрын
#777static777 why 42 ?
@deaglanquinn514
8 жыл бұрын
I really like the idea (though seeming coincidence) that 42 degrees is the angle that light is refracted by rain drops forming a rainbow. The General Mish Mash is just the minute particle back drop of the universe and your angle of perspective dictates how you see life.
@ninjatomic
11 жыл бұрын
@ sine moderamine "If you put 42 on the surface of an atom, would that make it a Douglas atom?" Lol! You, sir, win an internetz.
@erikbostrom3717
6 жыл бұрын
Mark Ryan Douglassium
@greenfairytina
4 жыл бұрын
That's so beyond great. Lol
@stapler942
4 жыл бұрын
I thought a Douglas Atom would be Molybdenum.
@ClovissenpaiDotR
8 жыл бұрын
Heyyyyy fourty-two here.
@old5045
8 жыл бұрын
lol
@unune9069
8 жыл бұрын
@thoughty two
@ahboy2575
8 жыл бұрын
nice reference
@Skaos87
8 жыл бұрын
Ooooooh, well damn, I was "always" wondering about that channel's name. It it really meant to be understood that way? Anyway I love it :)!
@Luisitococinero
7 жыл бұрын
I was thinking all the time on that...
@xorcyst420
6 жыл бұрын
Douglas Adams also knew a thing or two about programming, and in programming an asterisk is commonly used to translate to "anything you want it to be". In ASCII, "42" is the designation for an asterisk, so in asking a computer to come up with the ultimate answer to "life, the universe and everything", it answered as a computer would, 42 = "anything you want it to be" so on top of it being just funny and random and everything else its presented as, it actually has a deeper meaning if you know what to look for.
@calebfuller4713
6 жыл бұрын
Except in almost every programming language, * is actually used for multiplication...
@karenbenton1503
2 жыл бұрын
Douglass Adams literally stared out his window and said “42 will do” at complete random
@AgglomeratiProduzioni
10 жыл бұрын
Hi, I'm an Italian guy, and I'm proud to be from Anzio, Rome! Why? Because Anzio's italian postal code is 00042 and its coordinates are about 42°N!
@AgglomeratiProduzioni
9 жыл бұрын
Plus, my European shoes measure is 42.
@screamsinrussian5773
3 жыл бұрын
blessed
@RFC3514
10 жыл бұрын
No, Douglas Adams never said he chose 42 "because it was a funny number", on the contrary. He said he chose 42 because it was a boring number, and he didn't want to hide the "big joke" (that the answer to life is simply a number) behind a "small joke" (i.e., a funny or "weird" number). So he picked a number that sounded as ordinary and as boring as possible. He mentioned this in several interviews and (I think) in "The Salmon of Doubt". Unfortunately, a lot of people (including many Douglas Adams fans) completely miss the point, and keep trying to find something funny about 42. The joke is that it's simply a number, not which number it is.
@jimburrill8149
6 жыл бұрын
I believe on different occasions he would say either “because it is a boring number” or “because it is a funny number.” That leaves me with the impression that he thought it was funny because it was boring... Kind of makes sense to me.
@skinnynuggetsmith7548
4 жыл бұрын
42ND LIKE WHOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO
@marijana.majic.
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's right. However, finding all these hidden meanings in this one simple number... it might just mean D.A. subconsciously knew more than he was aware. About life, universe and everything.
@robotguy
8 жыл бұрын
What number is funnier than 42? 77. It's like 69, only you get 8 more.
@Mzansi74
8 жыл бұрын
naughty naughty!
@jimbo-fk4dq
8 жыл бұрын
Nice one!
@JuanGabrielOyolaCardona
8 жыл бұрын
77 - 69 = 8 , 4*2=8, 42 O.O
@robotguy
8 жыл бұрын
YoSoyGabo mind. blown.
@wowguy9393
8 жыл бұрын
42. 4+2=6. 4×2=8. 8×6=48. 48-42=6. 48 and 42 are 2 numbers. 6÷2=3. You know what else has 3? The illuminati. 42 is iilluminati confirmed.
@zoerycroft8314
8 жыл бұрын
"What number is funnier than 42" me - ehe... he... 69
@wowguy9393
8 жыл бұрын
M8 you aint dank. 420 blaze it upon this bich. #3mlg5you
@dylansbjpm
7 жыл бұрын
No, 47.
@bourbonbournvita
3 жыл бұрын
So, I gave you the 69th like 😬
@michaelmeissner3876
9 жыл бұрын
42 isn't the answer to life, the universe, and everything! It's the answer to _the ultimate question_ of life, the universe, and everything!
@DaiReborn
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I really hate when people miss that bit because that's what makes it make some sort of sense in the story.
@CoalOres
8 жыл бұрын
What's the question :D?
@niclouds5292
8 жыл бұрын
+CoalOres How many roads must a man walk down. I am not sure though, i was a kid when i last read it.
@puppetsock
8 жыл бұрын
+CoalOres The question is: What do you get when you multiply six by nine?
@michaelmeissner3876
8 жыл бұрын
puppetsock 54
@Merecir
10 жыл бұрын
Turn the number upside down. You got "2b" To be, is the answer to the question.
@blue9139
5 жыл бұрын
U have 21 likes... 42/2=21...
@BertGrink
5 жыл бұрын
0x2B + !0x2B = 0xFF
@zlatanibrahimovic8329
5 жыл бұрын
Merecir If it were the universe would’ve stopped existing
@mupadhyaya6091
4 жыл бұрын
Mine was the 42nd like. Have an improbably probable day!
@chopun3862
4 жыл бұрын
42 likes now. I refuse to like and ruin this perfection
@robertpalumbo9089
7 жыл бұрын
my feeling is that 42 is the age when you get a handle on life the universe and everything
@NoName_emaNoN
3 жыл бұрын
I agree!
@mysteriumbros8386
8 жыл бұрын
What about Japanese names for the letters: 4=shi 2=ni Shi+ni= shini Shini= death( shinigami=God of death) So the answer to life the universe and everything is death
@0MA2ANDR35
11 жыл бұрын
When he said that folding a 0.1 mm paper 42 times will reach to the moon in height, i said there is no way. 42 seemed like a small number and easy to count from 1 to it. Then I actually went ahead and calculated it, and discovered that it was really possible. If you calculate 2^42 and multiply by the paper thickness it gives a number grater than the moon-to-earth distance.
@jimgaluska1361
Жыл бұрын
Nope; it will only reach just over a 10th of the way. Lets do the math. Paper is .1mm thick so the thickness of paper is 1/10,000,000 or a kilometer. Folding a piece of paper 42 times is the same thing as having 2^42 thickness of paper which equals 4,398,046,511,104. How tall is that? It is 4,398,046,511,104/10,000,000 km or 43,984 km tall. The moon is 384,399 km away from the earth.
@litterpicker1431
8 ай бұрын
@@jimgaluska1361 Since when are there 10,000,000 mm in a km?
@dementy9
9 жыл бұрын
The funniest part about the number 42 is that fans of the books are looking for a deeper meaning in it, while there is just nothing. It is the same thing as looking for the ultimate question. There is no chance of finding one, only thing you can do is just theorize about it. How beautiful, Douglass...
@lucianocortes
8 жыл бұрын
every time they said 42 I was thinking of thoughty2
@lordchickenhawk
7 жыл бұрын
I think that's why he chose that name. If you start looking at popular nerd culture then references to 42 pop up all over the place.
@BertGrink
5 жыл бұрын
@lordchickenhawk It *_IS_* the reason Arran chose that number, he has said so himself in the 42. episode of his RIF series (RIF stands for Random interesting) in which he answered a lot of viewer questions about himself.
@MogalMauli
5 жыл бұрын
My favourite KZitem channel !!
@EmilMacko
7 жыл бұрын
Praise 42 let's all convert to 42ism where we get to live to be 42 where we're then cleansed from 42 (42 is the new word for life), then we'll have math in base 42 and the circumference of a circle relative to its diameter will be 42.424242424242 and every 42ing being breathing the air of 42 will be happy
@rahatthakur9865
4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@TheTurnipKing
3 жыл бұрын
The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash (WSOGMM) is the sum total of all the different ways that exists of looking at things, or more specifically, all the different probabilities that exist through which you could look at things. The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash, one could say, should be viewed as a plate of pie, or as a large tank of water. You could slice it and divide it up any way you'd like, and you'll almost always find a way of looking at things somewhere in probability (a parallel universe) that somebody will find familiar.
@natarito2056
9 жыл бұрын
It's also the "mega lotto number" in LOST. (4 8 15 16 23 42)
@CasualCoreK
10 жыл бұрын
2:00 42 was never claimed to be the meaning of life. They asked for the answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. "What is the meaning of life?" was specifically dismissed as a possibility for the question.
@ronaldderooij1774
9 жыл бұрын
Indeed.
@paulelliott3220
9 жыл бұрын
Irritates me every time commentators get this wrong Great to see someone get this right
@kaecilius2656
7 жыл бұрын
aliens then?
@ascendingneet2263
5 жыл бұрын
So what is the great question of life? Perhaps, what is our purpose? Am I alone behind this phaneron?
@TheTurnipKing
3 жыл бұрын
Well, there are probably a lot of questions in Life, the Universe and Everything. So, the ultimate question is presumably the one posed when you know all the answers to all the preceeding ones.
@ZerglingOne1
10 жыл бұрын
It's interesting to note that one of the first intentional broadcasts beamed out into space was beeps of the first (at the time) 7 prime numbers. 1 was being counted at the time, so it was 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13. Which is, interestingly enough, when added equal to 42. So, if there was an alien that created the Earth as a supercomputer and waited for the first intentional broadcast to space, it would get 42 as its answer.
@DeLoN1288
9 жыл бұрын
So, if you count all the numbers on one dice, you`ll get 21. Therefor you need 2 dices to get number 42. Answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is 2 (to) die. I suppose the ultimate question is What`s the meaning of life? ... To die.
@lc285
5 жыл бұрын
DeLoN1288 - in Latin die means day. So 2 day= Today.
@RobertLink
6 жыл бұрын
42 is the center point for a pica typewriter (i.e., the 10 characters per inch kind). This also happens to be the sort of typewriter that was normally used for typing screenplays back before everyone wrote everything on computers. Thus, early in Adams' career, he likely would have started every screenplay by moving his typewriter carriage to character position 42.
@alexsampson2630
2 жыл бұрын
Here's in my opinion the coolest thing about the number 42: If you were to find all the triads of regular polygons that "fit perfectly" when they all share one vertex, so each shape shares a side with both other shapes. (e.g three regular hexagons, as in graphene/honeycomb 120 + 120 + 120 = 360) A 42 sided shape has the highest number of sides out of any shape that exists in any of these triads This special triad is: a regular triangle, heptagon and a 42 sided polygon 60 + 128.57 + 171.43 = 360 (All numbers are rounded to 2dp but the equation holds true in exact form)
@Jivvi
5 жыл бұрын
5:30 It's interesting that a lot of the primary pseudoperfect numbers are also pronic numbers, specifically the product of the previous primary pseudoperfect number by one more than itself. 2×3=6 6×7=42 42×43=1,806 47,058×47,059=2,214,502,422
@lc285
5 жыл бұрын
Jivan Scarano - These numbers reduce down to their lowest form, 6
@awildrengarappeared8419
9 жыл бұрын
(LIFE x UNIVERSE) + EVERYTHING = 42 Calculate with the number of the letters.
@ewdlop1
9 жыл бұрын
A Wild Rengar Appeared It wont work in other language
@LudwigvanBeethoven2
6 жыл бұрын
Illuminati confirmed
@brittneybitch8489
5 жыл бұрын
23
@brittneybitch8489
5 жыл бұрын
Life universe and everything Total letters 23 Fourty-two 40-2 is 38 38 is 83 backwards 23 - 83 60 Divided by the final number we knew as 1st grade? 10 60:10 is 6 0 is known as a nothing number But it says everything? What's everything ? Messed up Messed up has 8 total letters 8 so there is no nothingness 6 and 8 together are 14 14 . How many lines does the number 42 have? 4 14 and 4 is 18 18 backwards (81) minus the words that are in the life and ... question 23 81 MINUS 23 Is 58 But . Our population is 7.4 billion.. 50.6 if we minus that with the number Billion has 7 zeros 50.6 minus 7 That's 41.6 7 is considered as the lucky number And at the casino there are 3 slots If you win 3 sevens you get the lottery So 7-3 is 4. But 4 what? 0.4 41.6 plus 0.4 Boom. 42 4
@BallyBoy95
10 жыл бұрын
6:37 What number's funnier than 42? You guessed 71, then 68... you missed it completely, it's SIXTY NINE!! COME ONNNNNN 69 69 69 69 69 69!!!
@jamesbrowne6351
6 жыл бұрын
No, no. He said, "What's funnier" not what's funner.
@edwardnygma3216
5 жыл бұрын
It's related to kabbalah.
@ericstaples7220
Жыл бұрын
The meaning to life is to find out the meaning of the number 42.
@yeh2319
Жыл бұрын
light broken down by a 42 degree angle into many parts which we perceive visually by a colour spectrum known as a rainbow. We, wholeness, broken down by a prism (prison) into many fractal parts and thats our current "reality".
@ArcaneEther
8 жыл бұрын
I am still butthurt about Fenchurch.
@izd4
8 жыл бұрын
I know, right!
@CJBurkey
8 жыл бұрын
XD
@CJBurkey
7 жыл бұрын
Sense Locke Read the seventh book.
@ArcaneEther
7 жыл бұрын
Christmas Burkey Wait...what? The series continued after book 5?
@CJBurkey
7 жыл бұрын
Jeremy Higgins The sixth was the last one that Adams wrote, but the seventh was picked up by someone else. It's called "And another thing" or something like that.
@ladylililala
9 жыл бұрын
42 is 'shini' in Japanese 'Shini' in Japanese.....means death... The answer the life, the universe and everything is death, seems fitting....
@aperson4075
9 жыл бұрын
:)
@tedrum69
9 жыл бұрын
You're almost correct.
@aminhassan545
9 жыл бұрын
deep
@nikned27th74
6 жыл бұрын
The answer to the !ultimate question! to life the universe bad everything
@ascendingneet2263
5 жыл бұрын
Ah, perhaps the question must be "What comes after this?" If that is it, that is a very underwhelming response by such a big computer :( We already knew THAT part, we wanted to know more specifically :( Be careful whatcha wish for, ya just might get it get it...
@swanbrown
7 жыл бұрын
Here's one: if a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4,etc... math: m=13 , a = 1, t= 20, h= 8...13+1+20+8 = 42 math = 42
@izd4
7 жыл бұрын
Swan Electro b
@quinn7894
7 жыл бұрын
S = 19. 42+19=61
@swanbrown
7 жыл бұрын
Kuin Firipusu and that's why "Maths" is incorrect.
@yoursbadal
5 жыл бұрын
42 people have already commented this fact.
@earljohnofucolta404
5 жыл бұрын
The correct word is Mathematics: using the code you suggest, which by the way is what the Greeks used in pre-Roman times: m=13, a=1, t=20, h=8, e=5, m=13, a=1, t=20, i=9, c=3, s=19 ... 13+ 1+ 20+ 8+ 5+ 13+ 1+ 20+ 9+ 3+ 19 = 112 Which would have been Bilbo's age by the end of The Lord of the Rings, so we should all go away and read Tolkien's works: *The Hobbit,* The 6 books of *The Lord of the Rings* and *The Simarillion.*
@DynamizMaxim
8 жыл бұрын
In japanese. the sound for 4 is Shi, and the sound for 2 is ni, if you combine them, Shini, it translates to death.
@napoleon_bonaparte2462
8 жыл бұрын
It actually stems from Chinese, the number 4 is read si 四, which means death 死 (same characters in both languages) - and for the Chinese this is an unlucky number much like our number 13. And in Japanese Shi し is 'death' and shi-ne しね is the verb form, while shi-ni しに is more like 'dying'
@denizakin5645
7 жыл бұрын
Bloodmoon 死に wouldn't mean anything yet you have to add 方 or something
@MrNikolidas
7 жыл бұрын
お前は本当に仕方がないやつだ.
@TheHuntermj
7 жыл бұрын
So the answer to life, the universe and everything is death?
@felipevasconcelos6736
7 жыл бұрын
Death Note teaching people Japanese!
@RudeViking
Жыл бұрын
Could 420 be 10 times funnier than 42?
@bulwynkl
10 жыл бұрын
6 x 9 = 42 in base 13...
@elsc1479
4 жыл бұрын
Isjt 6 x 9 = 45?
@drakou111
4 жыл бұрын
Pretty unlucky
@jazzr5398
4 жыл бұрын
Adlcee 4dlceE it’s in base 13 it’s a completely different number system
@aellalee4767
9 жыл бұрын
At my old university's course fair the philosophy table was table 42 on the map. I walked up and asked if it was on purpose. Then I had to explain. *face palm*
@user-xx6pr1te7q
3 жыл бұрын
There is a Bollywood movie called Table No. 21. 42/2=21. Coincidence?I think not.
@allisonearose5380
8 жыл бұрын
this is the most interesting interpretation of 42~ if the number is rotated upside-down, it reads- 2b, so the answer to the ultimate question is for two to be,, or to be for two,, and tea for two and two for tea and me for you and you for me.. after all what would experiencing life be if there wasn't another to share it with..?
@foreverduke4059
3 жыл бұрын
Scooby dooby doo?
@RaineQi
3 жыл бұрын
It's been 3 years that I found this video that got me hooked on maths videos. Nice little reunion in quarantine
@thesomeoner
10 жыл бұрын
I just noticed that if you count the characters in: "Answer to life the universe and everything" you get 42 Confirmed.
@eemisnicker4501
6 жыл бұрын
wrong, it's 42. count again
@charbelnakad7668
5 жыл бұрын
It's 34
@Garbaz
10 жыл бұрын
Video is 8:42 long. There the 42 is again.
@lashAR87
9 жыл бұрын
clearly says 8:41 here.
@Garbaz
9 жыл бұрын
lash 8:42 here, maybe you use Flash-player and I HTML-Player or the other way around?
@lashAR87
9 жыл бұрын
I've got flash player 16.0.0.235 dont know why mine still says 8.41 never mind, lol
@Garbaz
9 жыл бұрын
lash Well, I use HTMl 5-Player. Maybe thats why we have different times.
@codyclark6588
9 жыл бұрын
Garbaz I got 8:41
@prismaflex6195
8 жыл бұрын
The inaudible words that Gerardo said was "It sounds like an innocent property, but it's not."
@ascendingneet2263
5 жыл бұрын
Wow.
@RobinWootton
2 жыл бұрын
LIFE is characterised by multiplication (*) THE UNIVERSE contains many a star (*) EVERYTHING is denoted by the wildcard (*) 1960 - ASCII value "42" assigned to the asterisk. 1978 - Hitchhiker's Guide published! I rest my case.
@sadimkminecraftandmontages2257
9 жыл бұрын
"the answer to life the universe and everthing is 42" has 42 characters
@alanhilder1883
6 жыл бұрын
The actual sentence has more words than that but no "and". The answer to the ultimate question to life, the universe, everything
@tmcthree
9 жыл бұрын
0:45 Shouldn't that be 1/89th of the time? I'm not a mathematician, but I'm pretty sure there aren't 100 two digit numbers.
@RuneKillerz109
9 жыл бұрын
00 is a two digit number so are 01; 02; 03; 04; 05; 06; 07; 08 and 09
@tmcthree
9 жыл бұрын
RuneKillerz109 Seems a bit arbitrary. Wouldn't that make ten a three digit number? 010, 011, 012 etc?
@tmcthree
9 жыл бұрын
***** Right, but if we were dealing with three digit numbers, we could say that any number below 99 has three digits, just by adding enough zeros to make it so? Or if we were dealing with 6 digit numbers, any number below 999999 has six digits. So 1 then has six digits because we can write it 000001. If fact any number can have almost any number of digits because we can add as many zeros in front of it as we like. See what I mean about it being arbitrary? So what would your answer be to the question, "How many digits are in the number one?"?
@RuneKillerz109
9 жыл бұрын
tmcthree Originally just one digit but if you use this method there can be as many digits as you want
@tomtom9509
9 жыл бұрын
Well it also assumes that numbers are equally probable, but in real life, I'd bet that this isn't the case. For instance date numbers (
@jamie7647
8 жыл бұрын
This annoys me a lot. 42 is not the answer to life, the Universe, and everything, it is the answer to the Ultimate Question. These are 2 very different things.
@cachotognax3600
8 жыл бұрын
Ultimate Question About Life, The Universe, And Everything, to be correct, since capital letter makes everything looks cooler(or symilar it was explained in the first book)
@BLiZIHGUH
10 жыл бұрын
What number's funnier than 42? ....43
@twiinsnake
8 жыл бұрын
I heard a story about some guy who asked his mathematics teacher "What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?" to which his teacher responded with "Math." If each letter is assigned a number from 1-27 in ascending order... M - 13 A - 1 T - 20 H - 8 If added together you get 42
@wick9427
8 жыл бұрын
Lel noice
@twiinsnake
8 жыл бұрын
tfw people reply to comments from months ago
@Mzansi74
8 жыл бұрын
+RMG36000 A light hearted video and light hearted comments and you get so serious?
@bcubed72
7 жыл бұрын
So...truncation of words isn't a "thing" where you're from? You can't "put some gas[oline] in the auto[mobile]," or "hop on board the [Omni]bus," or "catch an [aero]plane?"
@sethgrasse9082
7 жыл бұрын
1-27?
@barniyamum
5 жыл бұрын
Learn about *Gematria* to learn much much more about 42.
@markhormann
3 жыл бұрын
Douglas Adams was an unabashed computer nerd & knew a heck of a lot about programming language & coding. In programming, an asterisk is commonly used to translate as "whatever you want it to be". In ASCII language, the most basic computer software, '42' is the designation for an asterisk. A computer, 'Deep Thought' was asked what the true meaning of life was. It answered as a computer would, '42' = "whatever you want it to be" Genius.
@GeneTakovic225
8 ай бұрын
It also, coincidently or not, fits well with light refraction at 42°, which is from the perspective of the beholder. We all see from our own perspectives and the universe is what we each see subjectively, from our own personal angle. Whatever you want it to be, indeed.
@Donk295
8 жыл бұрын
I know what it mean Step add all the number on the faces of a die =21 Do this with two dice Then the take the answers of both die And add them so that's 21+21=42 Then remember how many dice you used 2 in case you didn't remember So you have 2 die The answer Is To die
@Donk295
8 жыл бұрын
i know just heard it on a show
@earljohnofucolta404
5 жыл бұрын
This assumes a 6 sided die... If you use an 8 sided die you get a total of 36 Which doesn't help you at all
@aidenwinter1117
4 жыл бұрын
0:14 the moment Numberphile broke with tradition and used white paper
@erictaylor5462
8 жыл бұрын
So the Ultimate Question then is, What is the only 2 digit primary psudoperfect number?
@PassionPopsicle
8 жыл бұрын
+Eric Taylor Like we haven't all been wondering for years!!
@kepler6873
6 жыл бұрын
Eric Taylor in base 10*
@robertswaine2142
10 жыл бұрын
Video is 8 mins and 42 seconds long, O.O
@randomvideosagain1981
10 жыл бұрын
42. Minus 1 from four and add 1 from two. Each digit would be 3. Half life 3 confirmed.
@henrytjernlund
4 жыл бұрын
I too have heard the reason is because the ASCII code 42 is the "*" which is a wildcard (can be anything, including nothing) in many search mechanisms.
@barticle
3 жыл бұрын
I'm currently reading the DNA biography 'The Frood' by Jem Roberts. Before HHGG was a thing, Douglas worked for some while with Graham Chapman from Monty Python but he also spent a few days working as prop buyer for John Cleese who was making training films. One film was about accountancy and they needed a difficult calculation to give an amusing result. It was an easy choice because evidently Cleese and Chapman had already agreed in the past that 42 was the funniest number.
@EvolBob1
9 жыл бұрын
I've discovered something amazing... 42 sits between 2 prime numbers 41 & 43. Here are the products, 2*3*7 = 42, and so does 2, and, 2*3 = 6 and that also is surrounded by 5 & 7 two more prime numbers! If you add up the 2+3+7, you get 12 which is also prime number bookended with 11 & 13. Swap the number around 24 and minus that from 42 = 18, and that also between 2 prime numbers, 17 & 19.... need I say more!
@coopergates9680
9 жыл бұрын
+Evol Bob ... did you say 1 is prime?
@muffoschmuffo8993
8 жыл бұрын
+Cooper Gates *air horns*
@Fakenit66
10 жыл бұрын
I always thought the joke about 42 being the answer to the meaning of life was found in Japanese. The Japanese word for 4 is pronounced something like shi, or chi. The word for 2 is pronounced nee. 4 2 (four, followed by two, not the number forty-two) would be pronounced like shi-nee, which is the same pronunciation as the Japanese word for die, or death. Thus, the answer to the meaning of life, is death. X) That's what I always thought the joke was about, anyway.
@jankoutny2268
7 жыл бұрын
Fakenit66 I think you're right
@christopherellis2663
7 жыл бұрын
shiji ni is forty two. the joke is on you?
@HarryRobins
7 жыл бұрын
That's interesting. And it wouldn't be far fetched to think that Douglas would have done that. The Doctor Who episode he wrote, _The City of Death_ is named because it was set in Paris which is commonly known as "The City of Love", and the two in French have basically the same pronunciation. City of Love - "La ville de l'amour" City of Death - "La ville de la morte"
@pneumonoultramicroscopicsi4065
7 жыл бұрын
Fakenit66 it's called yonju ni and not shi ni
@GoldenShip24
7 жыл бұрын
Shine (die) is not pronounced the same as shini (four two). Shine is shi-NEH. Shini is shi-NEE.
@AumchanterPiLetsPlay
9 жыл бұрын
It's the number of Mulder's apartment in the X-Files. Deliberate?
@weswheel4834
5 жыл бұрын
I love how Gerardo found some properties of 42 and then made up words to describe them (Pronic number, Primary Pseudoperfect number, Harshad number). Also when James was describing the guy finding mystical meanings for the number 42, I thought maybe it was self-referential. Thanks for the video :D
@thesandman8669
3 жыл бұрын
The amount of letters in this sentence is forty two. (i typed this expecting to have to change the sentence around to actually make it 42 letters, but i counted and it was right at 42! I am a believer)
@Lowtaperdemon
8 жыл бұрын
Did anyone else realize that the video is 8:42 long
@tiletapper4ever
Жыл бұрын
Me, _7_ years later. _7_ ×6=42
@platinoir
8 жыл бұрын
I heard that 4 and 2 individually in Japanese spell death so the answer to life, universe and everything is death
@jeroenverschaeve3090
8 жыл бұрын
+DAKN Nonono, it is death and death, which means it's pure life
@TheDwagonHD
8 жыл бұрын
+DAKN Yon and ni? I don't know what you mean. :P
@hermmendez
8 жыл бұрын
well.... it's 4 (shi) and 7(shichi) that sound like death 死(shi)
@pirobot668beta
9 жыл бұрын
6*9=42. Yup! In base 13!
@TheBloodsuger150
7 жыл бұрын
4 8 15 16 23 42
@slahser
7 жыл бұрын
explain this to me pls
@FelmastProMclane
7 жыл бұрын
Is a secuence that appears in "Lost", the tv series
@wintercoder6687
4 жыл бұрын
I just saw this explanation on another video, so I take no credit for it.... I thought it might actually be the true reason 42 has such significance. Hold your hands in front of you, palms facing towards you. Fold your thumbs onto the palm of your hands. On your left hand, convert the digit '4' into binary, by having a zero represented by a finger being down and a one represented by a finger pointing up. On your right hand, do the same but with the digit '2'. Now if done from the perspective of the ultimate computer, we find out what he really thinks of us. (Hint: 4 = 0100, 2=0010)
@Joeby
8 жыл бұрын
42 is the answer and the question is 6 x 7
@coopergates9680
8 жыл бұрын
+Joeby What's the second sphenic number? What base smaller than 60 has a ton of finite fraction representations that decimal does not?
@niclouds5292
8 жыл бұрын
The question is 'how many roads must a man walk down'+Joeby
@Mister_NO.
8 жыл бұрын
+Joeby hahaha
@willstace7786
8 жыл бұрын
+Joeby actually... Having return to the supercomputer Earth, albeit in a prehistoric stage, Ford Prefect got Arthur Dent to randomly pull Scrabble tiles out of a bag. This resulted in the Question: "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
@lisiej4327
8 жыл бұрын
Don't you think calling one side of any equation "question" and another "answer" quite strange? It would mean that question is the same thing as an answer.. OK, where am I wrong here?
@maiq-theliar4692
9 жыл бұрын
When he says "When 42 turns up, you keep noticing it." I don't think it's a coincidence that you're meant to glance around and see if it appears anywhere else, yet this happens at 0:42
@marijana.majic.
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing 😂
@gotcha9983
2 жыл бұрын
Nice
@rikuurufu5534
9 жыл бұрын
What about 47, the most commonly occuring number in the Star Trek franchise, and "42 adjusted for inflation"
@Thoughtso573
9 жыл бұрын
So I'm guessing the ultimate question is: What is 21 multiplied by 2?
@Chaosligend
9 жыл бұрын
Lauren Opara The ultimate question is "What is 6 multiplied by 9". And yes it has to be 56, but it is, for some reason, 42.
@handtomouth4690
9 жыл бұрын
Chaosligend 6*9 = 54...
@Chaosligend
9 жыл бұрын
Handtomouth 8991 Ye :)
@SKyrim190
9 жыл бұрын
Chaosligend It is being done in base 13. 6 x 9 = 42 (in base 13)
@72Nicholls
9 жыл бұрын
Or (9+10) x 2
@shawn14isme
9 жыл бұрын
Darude Sandstorm
@MrJimbissle
8 жыл бұрын
I always thought it probably went this way. 'There is a theory stating that any time a sentient being figures out whats going on in the universe and how it all works -[paraphraseing the begininmg of the books]- The universe instantly colapses in on itself and comes back even more inexplicable and confusing than before. ' Q: How many times has this happened? A: 42
@ryanofarrell186
8 жыл бұрын
The length of the sentence "Answer to life the universe and everything" is 42
@084surajrao6
8 жыл бұрын
Coincidence? I think not
@vivafeverfifa2524
8 жыл бұрын
+Kad Leon 42 with spaces
@NewMessage
4 жыл бұрын
The fact that "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" does not equal 42 is fully explained in thirty-foot high letters of fire on top of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains in the land of Sevorbeupstry on planet Preliumtarn, third out from the sun Zarss in Galactic Sector QQ7 ActiveJ Gamma in the later novel, even if you don't accept the Golgafrincham ancestry reasoning. Douglas did NOT write jokes in base 13.
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