Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-05 Thread frankie
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:11:36PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:10:43PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > > Chris Jenks wrote: > > > > > > > > I thought that the book said the book said that the ultimate question > > > > is, "what is 6

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-05 Thread Richard Hector
Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:10:43PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > Chris Jenks wrote: > > > > > > I thought that the book said the book said that the ultimate question > > > is, "what is 6 * 9?" > > > > That was 6 * 7 (!), > > No, it _is_ 6 * 9, extracted from arthu

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-05 Thread Isabelle HURBAIN
> No, it _is_ 6 * 9, extracted from arthur's head using scrabble letters. > The full question is: "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" yep. And no one makes jokes in base 13 (Douglas Adams, approximativly translated from english to french and from french to english.) -- Isa

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:10:43PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Chris Jenks wrote: > > > > I thought that the book said the book said that the ultimate question > > is, "what is 6 * 9?" > > That was 6 * 7 (!), No, it _is_ 6 * 9, extracted from arthur's head using scrabble letters. The full que

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
Richard Hector wrote: > > had to make up an answer, Oops - a question. But it's an answer to "what is the question?" :-) Richard -- I'm currently looking for work; see my Curriculum Vitae here: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~rhector/cv.html

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
Chris Jenks wrote: > > I thought that the book said the book said that the ultimate question > is, "what is 6 * 9?" That was 6 * 7 (!), was after the earth had been destroyed and the mice had to make up an answer, and was rejected as "too literal, too factual". The better solution (but still made

OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Chris Jenks
At 03:42 PM 3/4/02, Gary Turner wrote: On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 11:22:23 +, Randy Orrison wrote: >On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:03:22AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >| On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:31:55 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >| >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >| >> If you can't get an answer th

Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 11:22:23 +, Randy Orrison wrote: >On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:03:22AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >| On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:31:55 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >| >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >| >> If you can't get an answer there, then the >| >> only answer is "42" >

Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Randy Orrison
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:03:22AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:31:55 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: | >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | >> If you can't get an answer there, then the | >> only answer is "42" | >Oh, thanks, I didn't know about that list. But your referenc