Comments on Puzzle #30257: The Answer
By Brian Bellis (mootpoint)
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#1: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Sep 30, 2017
I would have expected no other result. :)#2: Dan Tomlinson (themountainman) on Sep 30, 2017
Richard Petty#3: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Sep 30, 2017
Sounds about right for my bank account, but not sure about the universe thing.#4: Susan Eberhardt (susaneber) on Sep 30, 2017
Bill Clinton?!#5: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Sep 30, 2017
For those who are unfamiliar with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aboZctrHfK8#6: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Sep 30, 2017
I could have searched for the passage from the book (which I posted to Facebook on my 42nd birthday), but this works too. :)
I hear that the writer confided the actual question to a friend who promised to take the secret question to his grave. I wonder if he could be bribed at any amount to betray his friend, the writer. I wanna know!#7: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Sep 30, 2017 [SPOILER]
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Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#9: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Sep 30, 2017
Joe... how do I put this? Doesn't 7x8 equal 56? I think the question you meant to pose is 7x6.#10: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Sep 30, 2017
And for all I know, it could be the question, but I just think there would be more significance to it than that.
Aurelian, I have not known Joe to make a mistake. Note there are quotation marks around the question so it is a quote from something or someone. Google shows various quotes, but I'm unable to narrow it down at the moment.#11: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Sep 30, 2017 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#12: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Oct 1, 2017
I'm probably never going to look into it, to be honest, but I acknowledge what you were going for. I see that you were quoting something else and not making a careless mistake.#13: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Oct 1, 2017
In the book, the planet Earth was created as an even larger computer, to come up with the Question, but the data had grown corrupted over the centuries. Thus, Arthur Dent, native Earthling, wrote out an approximation of the possible Question, but it ended up as "what do you get when you multiply six by nine?"#14: Paul B (butterp) on Apr 3, 2018
Or Jackie Robinson's uniform number.#15: Belita (belita) on Apr 1, 2022 [SPOILER]
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Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#17: Belita (belita) on Apr 2, 2022 [SPOILER]
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