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[quote=olly]In the beginning, the Universe was created. This made a lot of people angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
6 x 9 using base 13 is coincidentally 42 Other quote: "I don't think so, Tim". 6 (in any base) times 9 (in any base) equals 54. 42[base13] is, as you stated, 4 thirteens (e.g. 52) plus 2 more. Voila! 56[10] equals 42[base13] {I realized hours after writing this that I had missed the mark.}
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>6[base13] times 9[base13] equals 42[base10].
wha??
base 10: 6x9=54 [5 tens + 4 ones] base 13: 6x9=42 [4 thirteens + 2 ones]
(42 base 10 = 33 base 13)
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It has often been misstated that "Forty-Two is the number". Actually, it is "Four Two base thirteen" Much the same way that 0x50 {hex notation} is not "Fifty" but rather, "Five Zero".
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It has often been misstated that "Forty-Two is the number". Actually, it is "Four Two base thirteen" Much the same way that 0x50 {hex notation} is not "Fifty" but rather, "Five Zero". We ain' lissening to the same number readers.
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We ain' lissening to the same number readers.
Le'ssee: 42 decimal is 33 base 13, but 42 base 13 is 54 decimal. "You know, there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who know binary and those who don't." Now, 42 octal is 24 decimal, but 42 decimal is 52 octal which is 2E hex which is 00101010 binary. Interestingly enough, 42 sexagesimal is ... er, wait a minute. What's Unicode for cuneiform 42?
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Yup, its just like those unix guys who are always messing up halloween and christmas.. (oct31=dec25)
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> those unix guys
I think unix should get every benefit of the doubt. they have lost so much.
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But what singers they can make!
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its all math. binary base 2 (or are you talking about 2 at the base...?)
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