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A code used by fans of Douglas Adams to identify themselves to each other. "42" has been inserted into movies, TV programs, books, email addresses, screen names, websites, and elsewhere.
In the "Growing Yourself" segment of "National Lampoon Goes To The Movies", a fire truck bears the number 42.

In "Party Animal", one of the girls in the sorority house wears a T-shirt with the number 42.
42 by D.B. Echo March 11, 2005
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The answer to the Ultimate Question or Life, the Universe, and Everything, as discovered by the computer called Deep Thought in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker trilogy. The location of Stavromula Beta. Fox Mulder's apartment number.
What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9? Why, 42 of course!
42 by Kathe May 8, 2005
The location of Stavromula Beta.
"Just there, number forty-two," shouted Ford Prefect to the taxi driver. "Right here!"
42 by Downstrike May 18, 2004
It's always been 42...
42 by Wanderlust_721 February 9, 2022
According to Douglas Adams and his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything.

Apparently the answer is 6 times 9.
6 x 9 = 42 in base 13, rather than base 10.
In base 10, 6 x 9 = 54.
4 times 13 = 52, means you have 2 left. So, 42 = 54 in base 13, and not base 9 like that other guy said.
42 by Draco the Lizard December 28, 2005
The answer to the ultimate question. What the hell the ultimate question is, no one knows. The computer Deep Thought made the computer Earth to figure out the ultimate question. 5 seconds before completion, the Earth was blown up to make way for an interstellar highway.
What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9?
42.
42 by tyueyhje5rt5yhqrhe June 18, 2003