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  1. The Earth is 42 orders of magnitude (based on powers of ten) larger than the Planck Length (in case you dont know what that is, it is the smallest length that humans have been able to measure; all below the Planck Length is impossible to measure because time and space merge, and relativity ceases to be the rule. The Planck Length is 1 x 10-35m).

  2. The angle at which light reflects off of water to create a rainbow is 42 degrees.

  3. A 42 mile per hour wind brought down the original Tacoma bridge in the state of Washington in the 1930's.

  4. Convert the letters of the word "Iron sulfide" into numbers of the alphabet. (Iron sulfide being (for the record) the true name of fools gold.) I.e:

    I R  O  N  S  U  L  F I D E
    9 18 15 14 19 21 12 6 9 4 5

Now then, Adding up the first 3 digits yields a total of 42. Adding up the next 3 digits makes 54, which is what 42 would be in base 10, if 42 was originally written as base 13 (The significance of which is widely known). Adding up the rest gets you 36, which is 42 written in base 12.

  1. An interesting and oft-cited factoid states that when asked to choose a random number between 1 and 20, 17 is the number most often chosen. A quick examination reveals the following:
    42 = 7 * 2 * 3
    17 = 7 * 2 + 3

  1. "The Sri Yantra is drawn from nine triangles, four pointed downward and five pointed upward, thus forming 42 (6x7)sic triangular fragments around a central triangle. There is probably no other set of triangles which interlock with such integral perfection." from "Sacred Geometry" Lawlor R., Thames and Hudson NY,1982 p.9.

  2. 42 is the natural vibration frequency of human DNA.

  3. 42 is the natural vibration frequency of white mouse DNA.

  4. ZOCOR, a new cholesterol drug, was responsible for saving the life of 42% of the people who took it in a 5 year study.

  5. It is 4.2 light-years to the nearest star from our solar-system?

  6. The chamber in the Cheops pyramid is exactly 42 meters over the ground.

  7. Cleopatra became Marc Anthony's mistress in 42BC.

  8. Professor S. A. Jordan who was working with the Smithsonian Institute around 1909 supposedly discovered EGYPTIAN artifacts in the Grand Canyon in an area called AG9, approximately 42 miles up the river from the El Tovar canyon. This area has evidently been off-limits to the public for about 65 years! This find was reported to have been made by G. E. Kincaid on a boat expedition down the Colorado River financed by the Smithsonian. -- from the front page of "The Phoenix Gazette" dated April 5th, 1909. The article was entitled "EXPLORATIONS IN GRAND CANYON", subtitled "Mysteries of Immense Rich Cavern Being Brought to Light...JORDAN IS ENTHUSED... Remarkable Finds Indicate Ancient People Migrated From Orient."

  9. The total number of dots on a pair of dice is 42.

  10. 42 is 4 tens and 2 ones. 4 is the only perfect number (the number is a perfect square AND it is the only number to have the same number of letters as the number represents) 2 squared is 4, the perfect number.

  11. Take ANY number, square its digits, and then add them up. Do the same thing with the answer. If you keep doing this indefinitely your final answer will either be a 1, or you'll enter a loop of solutions that -culminate- with the number 42.

  12. The Department of Mathematics at the Muenster-University are most interested in the relation between the numbers 42 and 17. Here some examples:

    • the 17th prime number is 59, and this is the sum of 17 and 42.
    • If dig(n) means the sum of the digits of n, there are numbers with
        dig(n) + (dig(n) + 1) = n

              (we call them 'additive dig-numbers') and there are numbers with

        dig(n)*(dig(n) + 1) = n

              (the so called 'multiplicative dig-numbers') You can show that there is only one 'additive dig-number':

        17 = (1 + 7) + ((1 + 7) + 1)

              You can also show that there are only four 'multiplicative dig-numbers':

        12  = (1 + 2) * ((1 + 2) + 1)
        42  = (4 + 2) * ((4 + 2) + 1)
        90  = (9 + 0) * ((9 + 0) + 1)
        156 = (1 + 5 + 6) * ((1 + 5 + 6) + 1)

                And you see: 42 is one of them.

  1. 42 is the number of the beast
    6 * 6 + 6 = 42
  1. FISH = 42
    F   I   S    H
    6 + 9 + 19 + 8 = 42

  1. The latest evolutionary "Missing Link" is 4.2 million years old.

  2. Water is most dense at 4.2 degrees Celsius. Ice therefore floats on water, and allows marine life to survive below it.

  3. The integer part of the square root of proton mass divided by electron mass gives 42.

  4. The element Molybdenum is vital for plant life on earth. The Atomic Number of Molybdenum is 42.

  5. 5 + 4 (The parts from 54) = 9; 4 + 2 (The parts from 42) = 6 "What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?". The answer is all yours.

  6. 1932 Is the year when Ford and Arthur return to the present in "Life, the Universe..." and it's also the day that the Vogons came to the earth. Therefore: 1986 (The year of the Copyright) - 54 = 1932!

  7. From Nicholas E. Scripture: 50 Mathematical Puzzles and Oddities, Faber and Faber, London,1963, p.47, chapter "Oddments in Algebra", No. 30:

The problem is: Prove that for any value of 'n', as long as it is a whole number, (n ^ 7 - n) must always be a multiple of 42.

  1. 4^2 = 2^4. Other than 24, this is the only non-palindromic two-digit number for which that is true.

  2. If you assign the alphabetical value of to the letters of the words: BIG BANG ( or GNAB GIB ) you get

    2 + 9 + 7 + 2 + 1 + 14 + 7

          which equals to, indeed, 42.

  1. They've found a star that has a planet circling around it for the first time. Distance to this star: 42 light-years.

  2. A grad student at UVic says that the lifetime of the universe will be 10^42 years. Note that this is the lifetime, not the age...

  3. Propane boils at -42 C.

  4. The maximum temperature in degrees Celsius a human can survive in case of a disease is (of course) 42 degrees Celsius.

  5. The REAL Hubble is (d/s) distance over speed of galaxies. As we cannot measure the speed accurately, the Constant is not known but scientists think it is betwixt 100 and 40, therefore it could be forty-two.

  6. 42 is the Number of Great Lakes areas Of Concern.

  7. If you take the number 'PI' as 3.14, and multiply the whole part (3) by the decimal part (14), then you get 3 x 14 = 42.

  8. The Specific heat capacity of water is 4200 J/kg oC (Jewls/Kilograms x degrees Celsius).

  9. If you drilled a hole through the Earth from one point to another, and that hole was frictionless, it would take 42 minutes for gravity to move you from you side of the tunnel to the other. That also goes for satellites orbiting the Earth with only gravity moving them.

  10. The galaxy M84 (Messier Catalog) is 42 x 106 light years distant. It is an elliptical galaxy in Virgo with a diameter of 25,000 light years.

  11. Two physical constants in the universe are the speed of light and the diameter of a proton. It takes light 10 to the minus 42nd power seconds to cross the diameter of a proton.

  12. Aloutte, Canada's first artificial space satellite was 42 inches in diameter.

  13. The Earth is sometimes referred to as the third stone (or rock, if you're a Jimi Hendrix fan) from the sun. A stone (British measurement system) is 14 pounds, so we have

    3 x 14 = 42.

  1. The world record in memorizing PI is quoted, from the Chicago Sun-Time, to be "over 42,000".

  2. All dogs have a total of 42 teeth over their lifetimes.

  3. The average dormancy of an active volcano is 42 years.

  4. The fastest speed for a land animal for 1 mile is 42mph (Guiness, page 59).

  5. Greatest recorded distance covered by one jump of a kangaroo is 42 feet (Guiness, page 71).

  6. The longest lava flow recorded is 42 miles (Guiness, page 129).

  7. The worlds widest conveyor belt is 42 feet wide (Guiness, page 335).

  8. The largest shoes ever sold were size 42 (Guiness, page 361).

  9. A barrel contains 42 gallons.

  10. The time it took for one person to eat an entire ox was 42 hours (Guiness, page 492).

  11. 42 occurs infinitely many times in then number PI.

  12. When PI is rounded to the third decimal place contains the number 42.

  13. Consider the following:

    ((1 * 2 * 3) - 4 + 5) * 6 = 42.
  1. In reverse polish notation (postfix), used on most HP calculators (and others), the expression
    2 4 2 4 2 * + * +

          evaluates to 42! (This, of course, is closely related to the fact that the binary number system, 101010 means 42,

          or that in base 4, 222 means 42).

  1. Check
    SQRT(41 * 42 + SQRT(41 * 42 + SQRT(41 * 42 + SQRT(...)))) = 42

          where

    SQRT()

          means the 'square root' of the bracketed expression.

  1. The Efficiency of human respiration is 42.

  2. The number of chromosomes of harvested wheat is 42.

  3. 42 in base 4 (222) is the same as in base -5 ie. 54.

  4. 1 joule is equal to 4.2 calories.

  5. The following question appears in the Rhind Papyrus, which is the oldest mathematical book known and originated in Egypt in 1650 B.C.:

   "If a certain number, two-thirds of it, half of it, and a seventh of it are added together, the result is 97."

The number, of course, is **42**.

    x + 2x/3 + x/2 + x/7 = 97 --> x = 42

          This was derived from an 8th grade Addison-Wesley Algebra book, page 444.

  1. 42 in base 4 is 222 or 4; 222. Also, if you multiply or add the digits together, you get the same thing for 42 and 222.

  2. There are 42 gallons in a barrel of oil.

  3. A new species of fish was discovered in Fiordland, New Zealand and named Fiordichthys slartibartfasti. The paper was accepted for publication by Journal of Natural History on 11 March 1994 - Douglas Adams' 42nd birthday.

  4. The Gaza Strip is 42 kilometers long.