M (13th letter of the alphabet) A (1st) T (20th) H (8th) = 42
@Mrtaco-bs1lg7 жыл бұрын
my brain
@VibratorDefibrilator7 жыл бұрын
EARTH = 52... How typical.
@kacee34727 жыл бұрын
😱
@per-axelskogsberg38617 жыл бұрын
Illuminati confirmed
@YourNickIsTaken7 жыл бұрын
perl -e 'print length "Answer to Life the Universe and Everything"'
@bsabruzzo8 жыл бұрын
42 has to be mystical. It is said that every human over the age of 43 has been age 42. Coincidence? I think not.
@cuaroz58088 жыл бұрын
Illuminazi confiemed?
@cuaroz58088 жыл бұрын
Benjamin Abruzzo, don't believe what Steven Moore says! He's probably just a commie!
@Mzansi748 жыл бұрын
lol
@douglaslawrence65808 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.
@ianmarkhammes20717 жыл бұрын
Benjamin Abruzzo At first, I thought this was just a rumor until it happened to me.
@MountainHawkPYL9 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
@gdesign959 жыл бұрын
Robot Jones the question is... what is 6 times 9?
@MountainHawkPYL9 жыл бұрын
42, in base 13.
@stevecarter88104 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 :-)
@shikhanshu8 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.
@niclouds52928 жыл бұрын
IT'S WIKIPEDIA IT CANT BE TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +Shikhanshu Agarwal
@CJBurkey8 жыл бұрын
In the books, the question was actually "what's 6x7?"
@bjaurus63758 жыл бұрын
Actually CJ the question was "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
@CJBurkey8 жыл бұрын
Derek Hopkins Really?
@CJBurkey8 жыл бұрын
Oh, it's base 13.
@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!”
@GreenAliceVerte6 ай бұрын
I remember that interview and cannot find it anywhere. Was it ever on KZbin? Maybe it was in a behinds the scene somewhere? Loved your answer by the way!
@DavideBaroni2 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. :)
@anasaloudeh237110 жыл бұрын
The meaning of life=MATH M: 13th letter A: 1st letter T: 20th letter H: 8th letter 13+1+20+8=42!
@dysxSRJEY9 жыл бұрын
***** 21+21?....yes.....42!
@noyoutube.20242 ай бұрын
Just English? ?
@steffenblake10398 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.
@wykah6 жыл бұрын
It also means "to multiply" so maybe that's the meaning of life :)
@davidianmusic48695 жыл бұрын
Ok, that’s cool.
@ucantSQ5 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-petsjournal4 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@Chris_Cross4 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.
@finn_underwood8 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."
@cachotognax36008 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
@CJBurkey8 жыл бұрын
People have pointed out that (I think) in base 6, the answer is correct, which Douglas Adams said is a major coincidence.
@benjaminhoving8 жыл бұрын
base-13
@XxTheXNerdXGuyxX7 жыл бұрын
Could you think about tagging your spoilers?!?!?!
@andrewhedrick16127 жыл бұрын
It does in base 13
@deaglanquinn5148 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.
@xorcyst4206 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.
@calebfuller47136 жыл бұрын
Except in almost every programming language, * is actually used for multiplication...
@karenbenton15032 жыл бұрын
Douglass Adams literally stared out his window and said “42 will do” at complete random
@ciarasookarry8 жыл бұрын
The video is 8 minutes and 42 seconds long!!! :0
@lisiej43278 жыл бұрын
8:41... close enough.
@asue86788 жыл бұрын
+Li siej It is 8:42, not 8:41.
@scottmantooth87858 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)
@aeriumsoft8 жыл бұрын
I am gonna pretend i understood you.
@scottmantooth87858 жыл бұрын
Awsomiihill it's probably better that way
@RFC351410 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.
@jimburrill81496 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.
@skinnynuggetsmith75484 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.
Cody Natof I thought it was 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8... =-1/12
@cagedlemp51849 жыл бұрын
"What number is funnier than 42?" 25.
@SlingerMarshall9 жыл бұрын
Caged Lemp eleventeen
@vicksterhawk9 жыл бұрын
Slinger Marshall eleventy is too :)
@Elosva9 жыл бұрын
Caged Lemp 27
@cameodamaneo9 жыл бұрын
+Caged Lemp I was looking for this comment. I just KNEW it was going to be here!
@bigbenhebdomadarius62529 жыл бұрын
+vicki talbot Eleventy-eleven.
@ninjatomic11 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.
@erikbostrom37176 жыл бұрын
Mark Ryan Douglassium
@greenfairytina4 жыл бұрын
That's so beyond great. Lol
@stapler9424 жыл бұрын
I thought a Douglas Atom would be Molybdenum.
@RaineQi4 жыл бұрын
It's been 3 years that I found this video that got me hooked on maths videos. Nice little reunion in quarantine
@dementy99 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...
@AgglomeratiProduzioni10 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!
@AgglomeratiProduzioni9 жыл бұрын
Plus, my European shoes measure is 42.
@screamsinrussian57733 жыл бұрын
blessed
@alexsampson26302 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)
@ClovissenpaiDotR8 жыл бұрын
Heyyyyy fourty-two here.
@old50458 жыл бұрын
lol
@unune90698 жыл бұрын
@thoughty two
@ahboy25758 жыл бұрын
nice reference
@Skaos878 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 :)!
@Luisitococinero7 жыл бұрын
I was thinking all the time on that...
@philjamieson55724 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.
@michaelmeissner38769 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!
@DaiReborn9 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.
@CoalOres8 жыл бұрын
What's the question :D?
@niclouds52928 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.
@puppetsock8 жыл бұрын
+CoalOres The question is: What do you get when you multiply six by nine?
@michaelmeissner38768 жыл бұрын
puppetsock 54
@777static7779 жыл бұрын
"What number is funnier than 42?" How does your mind not instantly jump to 69?
@jamief4159 жыл бұрын
no
@777static7779 жыл бұрын
Jamie Fendt Ok grumpy cat, name me a number funnier than 69 - there aren't exactly that many funny numbers going around
@Joso9979 жыл бұрын
21
@777static7779 жыл бұрын
Jetserpent Why 21?
@Joso9979 жыл бұрын
#777static777 why 42 ?
@RobertLink6 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.
@ZerglingOne110 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.
@robertpalumbo90897 жыл бұрын
my feeling is that 42 is the age when you get a handle on life the universe and everything
@NoName_emaNoN3 жыл бұрын
I agree!
@Merecir10 жыл бұрын
Turn the number upside down. You got "2b" To be, is the answer to the question.
@blue91395 жыл бұрын
U have 21 likes... 42/2=21...
@BertGrink5 жыл бұрын
0x2B + !0x2B = 0xFF
@zlatanibrahimovic83295 жыл бұрын
Merecir If it were the universe would’ve stopped existing
@mupadhyaya60914 жыл бұрын
Mine was the 42nd like. Have an improbably probable day!
@chopun38624 жыл бұрын
42 likes now. I refuse to like and ruin this perfection
@0MA2ANDR3511 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.
@litterpicker14319 ай бұрын
@@jimgaluska1361 Since when are there 10,000,000 mm in a km?
@markhormann3 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.
@GeneTakovic2258 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.
@CasualCoreK10 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.
@ronaldderooij177410 жыл бұрын
Indeed.
@paulelliott32209 жыл бұрын
Irritates me every time commentators get this wrong Great to see someone get this right
@kaecilius26567 жыл бұрын
aliens then?
@ascendingneet22635 жыл бұрын
So what is the great question of life? Perhaps, what is our purpose? Am I alone behind this phaneron?
@TheTurnipKing3 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.
@DynamizMaxim8 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_bonaparte24628 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'
@denizakin56458 жыл бұрын
Bloodmoon 死に wouldn't mean anything yet you have to add 方 or something
@MrNikolidas7 жыл бұрын
お前は本当に仕方がないやつだ.
@TheHuntermj7 жыл бұрын
So the answer to life, the universe and everything is death?
@felipevasconcelos67367 жыл бұрын
Death Note teaching people Japanese!
@cedricgist76146 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed this video a year ago, not having seen or read "Hitchhiker's Guide." Saw the movie last week and the dramatic theme still loops in my head today. The spoiler in this video was long forgotten, so the story was fresh. May not have watched the film had I not seen and remembered this video. Thank you....
@BornAgainCynic0086 Жыл бұрын
The movie was horrible, try to see the series, much funnier and truer to the book.
@EmilMacko7 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
@rahatthakur98654 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@TheTurnipKing3 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.
@robotguy8 жыл бұрын
What number is funnier than 42? 77. It's like 69, only you get 8 more.
@Mzansi748 жыл бұрын
naughty naughty!
@jimbo-fk4dq8 жыл бұрын
Nice one!
@JuanGabrielOyolaCardona8 жыл бұрын
77 - 69 = 8 , 4*2=8, 42 O.O
@robotguy8 жыл бұрын
YoSoyGabo mind. blown.
@wowguy93938 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.
@weswheel48345 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
@thesomeoner10 жыл бұрын
I just noticed that if you count the characters in: "Answer to life the universe and everything" you get 42 Confirmed.
@eemisnicker45016 жыл бұрын
wrong, it's 42. count again
@charbelnakad76685 жыл бұрын
It's 34
@Jivvi5 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
@lc2855 жыл бұрын
Jivan Scarano - These numbers reduce down to their lowest form, 6
@swanbrown7 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
@izd47 жыл бұрын
Swan Electro b
@quinn78947 жыл бұрын
S = 19. 42+19=61
@swanbrown7 жыл бұрын
Kuin Firipusu and that's why "Maths" is incorrect.
@yoursbadal6 жыл бұрын
42 people have already commented this fact.
@earljohnofucolta4045 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.*
@lucianocortes8 жыл бұрын
every time they said 42 I was thinking of thoughty2
@lordchickenhawk7 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.
@BertGrink5 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.
@MogalMauli5 жыл бұрын
My favourite KZbin channel !!
@EvolBob19 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!
@coopergates96809 жыл бұрын
+Evol Bob ... did you say 1 is prime?
@muffoschmuffo89938 жыл бұрын
+Cooper Gates *air horns*
@henrytjernlund4 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.
@twiinsnake8 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
@wick94278 жыл бұрын
Lel noice
@twiinsnake8 жыл бұрын
tfw people reply to comments from months ago
@Mzansi748 жыл бұрын
+RMG36000 A light hearted video and light hearted comments and you get so serious?
@bcubed727 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?"
@sethgrasse90827 жыл бұрын
1-27?
@allisonearose53808 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..?
@foreverduke40593 жыл бұрын
Scooby dooby doo?
@mysteriumbros83868 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
@barticle3 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.
@sadimkminecraftandmontages22579 жыл бұрын
"the answer to life the universe and everthing is 42" has 42 characters
@alanhilder18836 жыл бұрын
The actual sentence has more words than that but no "and". The answer to the ultimate question to life, the universe, everything
@thesandman86693 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)
@zoerycroft83148 жыл бұрын
"What number is funnier than 42" me - ehe... he... 69
@wowguy93938 жыл бұрын
M8 you aint dank. 420 blaze it upon this bich. #3mlg5you
@dylansbjpm7 жыл бұрын
No, 47.
@bourbonbournvita3 жыл бұрын
So, I gave you the 69th like 😬
@prismaflex61958 жыл бұрын
The inaudible words that Gerardo said was "It sounds like an innocent property, but it's not."
@ascendingneet22635 жыл бұрын
Wow.
@nicholashylton68579 жыл бұрын
Almighty Zarquon, I truly miss Douglas Adams. :( The first time I heard the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I knew it was something special. As I grew up and came into contact with more science nerds like myself, I quickly realized how much it inspired our particular subculture.
@awildrengarappeared84199 жыл бұрын
(LIFE x UNIVERSE) + EVERYTHING = 42 Calculate with the number of the letters.
@ewdlop19 жыл бұрын
A Wild Rengar Appeared It wont work in other language
@LudwigvanBeethoven26 жыл бұрын
Illuminati confirmed
@brittneybitch84895 жыл бұрын
23
@brittneybitch84895 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
@ladylililala10 жыл бұрын
42 is 'shini' in Japanese 'Shini' in Japanese.....means death... The answer the life, the universe and everything is death, seems fitting....
@aperson40759 жыл бұрын
:)
@tedrum699 жыл бұрын
You're almost correct.
@aminhassan5459 жыл бұрын
deep
@nikned27th746 жыл бұрын
The answer to the !ultimate question! to life the universe bad everything
@ascendingneet22635 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...
@yglitzer10 ай бұрын
6x7=42 is the first multiplication I ever learn.
@aellalee47679 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-xx6pr1te7q3 жыл бұрын
There is a Bollywood movie called Table No. 21. 42/2=21. Coincidence?I think not.
@Donk2958 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
@Donk2958 жыл бұрын
i know just heard it on a show
@earljohnofucolta4045 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
@EdoTimmermans Жыл бұрын
I just discovered using my computer program for tiling polyominoes that the largest square with a square hole that can be formed with inflated pentominoes is a 42x42-square. The V-pentomino is inflated with factor 14, the L, U and X-pentominoes are inflated with factor 7, the remaining pentominoes remain uninflated. It is a nice puzzle to figure out how this is possible, there is just one solution.
@BallyBoy9510 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!!!
@jamesbrowne63516 жыл бұрын
No, no. He said, "What's funnier" not what's funner.
@Garbaz10 жыл бұрын
Video is 8:42 long. There the 42 is again.
@lashAR879 жыл бұрын
clearly says 8:41 here.
@Garbaz9 жыл бұрын
lash 8:42 here, maybe you use Flash-player and I HTML-Player or the other way around?
@lashAR879 жыл бұрын
I've got flash player 16.0.0.235 dont know why mine still says 8.41 never mind, lol
@Garbaz9 жыл бұрын
lash Well, I use HTMl 5-Player. Maybe thats why we have different times.
@codyclark65889 жыл бұрын
Garbaz I got 8:41
@AlistairRiddochSHBEW7 жыл бұрын
If you google "cuboctahedron" you will find a 14 faced geometric shape that is balanced by sets of twelves. It has 24 equal length edges, 24 equal length "radials" that connect the vertices to the center, 24 external vertices, BUT YET, when you view it in 2D you can count FOURTY TWO sections. And as an added bonus, you will find (and it is not commonly known, maybe not known at all, that a flattened cuboctahedron IS the framework with all snowflakes build upon as they crystallize. When you factor in that it takes 10^20 or so water molecules to make a snowflake, the fact they crystallize persistently around such a framework becomes that much more compelling. Yes, 42 and snowflake shape are intimately related to one another. 42 is GREAT. :-) p.s. Thanks for the video.
@DeLoN12889 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.
@lc2855 жыл бұрын
DeLoN1288 - in Latin die means day. So 2 day= Today.
@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".
@birchthompson43788 жыл бұрын
42 also features heavily in Lewis Carroll's "Hunting of the Snark" I've also heard it claimed that 42 was chosen because it sounds like 'fortitude' -- necessary to get through life!
@jamie76478 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.
@cachotognax36008 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)
@maiq-theliar46929 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 😂
@gotcha99832 жыл бұрын
Nice
@AetherRealm3337 жыл бұрын
Started seeing this number everywhere about 5 months ago before starting to look into it.
@randomvideosagain198110 жыл бұрын
42. Minus 1 from four and add 1 from two. Each digit would be 3. Half life 3 confirmed.
@ryanofarrell1868 жыл бұрын
The length of the sentence "Answer to life the universe and everything" is 42
@084surajrao68 жыл бұрын
Coincidence? I think not
@vivafeverfifa25248 жыл бұрын
+Kad Leon 42 with spaces
@anikakonau94955 жыл бұрын
0:07 I love how James says "Nerd-cultrure". Somewhat like Neeeeeerd-culture. Could listen to it all the time.
@bulwynkl10 жыл бұрын
6 x 9 = 42 in base 13...
@elsc14794 жыл бұрын
Isjt 6 x 9 = 45?
@drakou1114 жыл бұрын
Pretty unlucky
@jazzr53984 жыл бұрын
Adlcee 4dlceE it’s in base 13 it’s a completely different number system
@erictaylor54628 жыл бұрын
So the Ultimate Question then is, What is the only 2 digit primary psudoperfect number?
@PassionPopsicle8 жыл бұрын
+Eric Taylor Like we haven't all been wondering for years!!
@kepler68736 жыл бұрын
Eric Taylor in base 10*
@ethanwagner64187 жыл бұрын
Douglas Adams If you assign a number to each letter in his name, you get:4+15+21+7+12+1+19+1+4+1+13+19=117117 is the number for the Master Chief. Master Chief is also known as S-117. If you insert S's numerical value of 19, then you get the expression 19-117, which is equivalent to -98. Now, given that Douglas Adams is most frequently referred to by the two names Douglas and Adams, we can infer that 2 is an important number, so we are going to divide -98 by 2 and get -49. Remember how Master Chief played a part in this mystery? Well Master Chief is from the Halo franchise which was originally owned by Bungie. Bungie had a favorite number, which they used frequently in their games and books. This number is 7. We will now take 7 and add it to -49 and get -42. Here's the final step. The number -42 on a number line is of equal distance to zero as 42, as in the absolute value of -42 is 42. So there you have it. Douglas Adams has been inexplicably linked to the number 42 ever since he was born.
@natarito20569 жыл бұрын
It's also the "mega lotto number" in LOST. (4 8 15 16 23 42)
@frankienphil92619788 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.
@atouloupas8 жыл бұрын
Miles or metres?
@frankienphil92619788 жыл бұрын
+Απόστολος Τουλούπας miles (converter app)
@atouloupas8 жыл бұрын
+frankienphil9261978 Ok👍 I asked because the thickness of the piece of paper was in millimetres
@frankienphil92619788 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.
@frankienphil92619788 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.
@jasonmackenzie39127 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.'
@robodragonn950610 жыл бұрын
Never has my screen name been more appropriate.
@ArcaneEther8 жыл бұрын
I am still butthurt about Fenchurch.
@izd48 жыл бұрын
I know, right!
@CJBurkey8 жыл бұрын
XD
@CJBurkey7 жыл бұрын
Sense Locke Read the seventh book.
@ArcaneEther7 жыл бұрын
Christmas Burkey Wait...what? The series continued after book 5?
@CJBurkey7 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.
@FaffyWaffles5 жыл бұрын
“What number is funnier than 42? 71? 68?” We were on the verge of greatness, we were this close.
@Joeby8 жыл бұрын
42 is the answer and the question is 6 x 7
@coopergates96808 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?
@niclouds52928 жыл бұрын
The question is 'how many roads must a man walk down'+Joeby
@Mister_NO.8 жыл бұрын
+Joeby hahaha
@willstace77868 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?"
@lisiej43278 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?
@neelmodi57918 жыл бұрын
wow i just finished watching this video... and what do you know... its 11:42 pm
@aformofmatter89138 жыл бұрын
For me its 12:06. 12/2 = 6 so we now have 6*2:06 we now set the first 6 aside 2:06 let us extract a 0 0 is divisible by 5 so we replace the 6 with a 5 2:5 2+5=7 now we bring back that 6 6*7=42 I just blew your mind.
@katzen33148 жыл бұрын
Illuminati confirmed.
@MrJimbissle8 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
@Lowtaperdemon8 жыл бұрын
Did anyone else realize that the video is 8:42 long
@tiletapper4ever Жыл бұрын
Me, _7_ years later. _7_ ×6=42
@BLiZIHGUH10 жыл бұрын
What number's funnier than 42? ....43
@kuobik7 жыл бұрын
The sum of all numbers on a dice (or on a die, whatever you call it) is 21, if you get two die you get 42. So the meaning of life is just 2 die.
@ffggddss6 жыл бұрын
So 42 = the number of a paradise. Fred
@tmcthree9 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.
@RuneKillerz1099 жыл бұрын
00 is a two digit number so are 01; 02; 03; 04; 05; 06; 07; 08 and 09
@tmcthree9 жыл бұрын
RuneKillerz109 Seems a bit arbitrary. Wouldn't that make ten a three digit number? 010, 011, 012 etc?
@tmcthree9 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?"?
@RuneKillerz1099 жыл бұрын
tmcthree Originally just one digit but if you use this method there can be as many digits as you want
@tomtom95099 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 (
@solwarda29 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.
@kraigbailey332110 ай бұрын
On April 29, 2005 at the Disney El Cap theater in Hollywood, I attended the first showing of the film version of H2G2. I had a wonderful conversation with an older gentleman who said he was part of the original H2G2 radio broadcast cast. He mentioned that he asked Douglas Adams why the answer to life, the universe and everything was 42. Adams told him that if you count the # of dots on a pair of dice, you will see there are 42- and life is just a roll of the dice.
@robertswaine214210 жыл бұрын
Video is 8 mins and 42 seconds long, O.O
@AumchanterPiLetsPlay9 жыл бұрын
It's the number of Mulder's apartment in the X-Files. Deliberate?
@zappawoman51836 жыл бұрын
I have slight synaesthesia, to the extent that numbers are colours. 4 is blue and 2 is green, and the Earth in Hitchhikers is described as a "small, blue-green planet". Then the Earth is revealed to have been created as a supercomputer to calculate the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything, so to me it was a very apt number.
@platinoir8 жыл бұрын
I heard that 4 and 2 individually in Japanese spell death so the answer to life, universe and everything is death
@jeroenverschaeve30908 жыл бұрын
+DAKN Nonono, it is death and death, which means it's pure life
@TheDwagonHD8 жыл бұрын
+DAKN Yon and ni? I don't know what you mean. :P
@hermmendez8 жыл бұрын
well.... it's 4 (shi) and 7(shichi) that sound like death 死(shi)
@Thoughtso5739 жыл бұрын
So I'm guessing the ultimate question is: What is 21 multiplied by 2?
@Chaosligend9 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.
@handtomouth46909 жыл бұрын
Chaosligend 6*9 = 54...
@Chaosligend9 жыл бұрын
Handtomouth 8991 Ye :)
@SKyrim1909 жыл бұрын
Chaosligend It is being done in base 13. 6 x 9 = 42 (in base 13)
@72Nicholls9 жыл бұрын
Or (9+10) x 2
@eris47347 жыл бұрын
42 is the number of 5-second segments of happy-dancing in a 3-1/2 minute vlogbrothers video.
@pirobot668beta9 жыл бұрын
6*9=42. Yup! In base 13!
@lohphat9 жыл бұрын
Dr. Adesso can have my number. ANYTIME.
@RacecarsAndRicefish9 жыл бұрын
after reading the hitchiker's guide to the galaxy, I noticed every single time that I saw a 42 for like 3 or 4 years, but it has calmed down
@pixelspring10 жыл бұрын
OK .... I am a fan of Zen, prime number theory and classical metaphysics ... going by his works, i think Adams was too. about 15 years ago i had a flash of inspiration when i returned to 42 in a conversation with a friend. The prime number factors of 42 are ... 1 x 2 x 3 x 7 = 42 . (although 1 is a prime and not a prime per se ... but we will allow it for the sake of the sequence) So ... if this sequence 1,2,3,7 IS the ANSWER to Life, the Universe and Everything ... and if we then consider what is the missing number in the sequence , the answer is obviously the number 5. But 5 is the classical number of Man in the Vitruvian and Renaissance cannon of meta physics. (think of Leonardo's sketch of Vitruvian man on the pentagram). So... bringing all this together ,.. If 5, the number of Man, is MISSING from the Answer to Life the Universe and Everything, then MAN must be the eternal Question to that Answer. As a Zen aphorism, this idea made a nice Kwatz in my head when it grocked into place. I hope it does the same for you. :) we could look at it through Zen eyes as Man separates 'himself' from knowing the answer to the universe through the process of forming the original question. .. or perhaps another way .... Man is excluded from being the answer because the mind forms a question. Searching is not Being. A Zen Koan if ever there was one. :)
@prototypesoup9 жыл бұрын
There were also 5 books in the "Hitch-hikers" "Trilogy."
@coopergates96809 жыл бұрын
+pixelspring 1 is "less than prime" because prime numbers have 2 factors and 1 only has 1. 1 would also break unique prime factorizations if it were prime. Anyway, if Douglas had chosen the number 30 (2*3*5), what would have been missing because 7 was left out?
@Peter_19868 жыл бұрын
*SPOILER ALERT BETWEEN THESE EXACT TIMES:* 2:10-2:38 In other words, it starts at 2:10 and then continues up until 2:38.
@Nexus2Eden8 жыл бұрын
So weird, when Dr. M asked 'what's a funnier number than 42?' I immediate stated in tandem with him - 71! lol
@alexandg4237 жыл бұрын
M =13 + A= 1 + T = 20 + H = 8 =42 MATH = The answer to life, the universe and everything.