"Die Antwort ...
... nach dem Leben, dem Universum und dem ganzen Rest! = 42!" [Deep Thought]
Aber warum eigentlich die 42 und nicht 23 ... oder 18 ... oder 1.798?
Dazu Douglas Adams selbst:
"(...) The answer to this is very simple. 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. (...)"
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