• Question: how is the answer 42

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    Asked by Ineedfriedchicken to Anna, Hayley, Iain, Rebecca on 16 Jun 2015.
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      anon answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      I wish I knew! Unfortunately nobody seems to know what the question is either 😉

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      Iain Bethune answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      When the people in Douglas Adam’s ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide’ build the Deep Though computer to answer the ‘Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe and Everything’ the problem was they didn’t specify the question precisely enough.

      As we say in computer programming – garbage in -> garbage out!

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