In his cult novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams famously wrote, ‘The answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is 42.’
Readers have long debated the significance of this statement. Mathematicians and scientists have pored over slide rules and tables in search of some magical formula that would produce this number, while historians have scoured calendars and almanacks looking for portentous clues from the past.
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