On 2021-12-09 13:52:17 +0000, Dweeb said:
>
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-math-fans-a-hitchhikers-guide-
> to-the-number-42/
"It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number,
and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan
monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the
garden and thought '42 will do.' I typed it out. End of story." -
Douglas Adams
That pretty much sums up the utetr ridiculousness of English
[Literature] exams where they ask idiotic questions like "What was the
author thinking when they wrote...?". Which is why it was my most
detested subject at school, after Physical Education / sports - the
most pointless class ever invented. :-\