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RE: Why?
- From: One Angry User <angry at lusers dot org>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:55:51 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Why?
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- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Reply-to: Blaaab Babble Boogle Bop <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Dave Korn's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: One Angry User
> >Sent: 27 July 2005 15:30
>
> > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Dave Korn's computer deigned to emit the following
> > stream of bytes:
> >
> >> ----Original Message----
> >>> From: One Angry User
> >>> Sent: 26 July 2005 22:57
> >>
> >>> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Gerrit P. Haase's computer deigned to emit the
> >>> following stream of bytes:
> >>>
> >>>> One Angry User wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Gerrit P. Haase's computer deigned to emit the
> >>>>> following stream of bytes:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> 42
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Wow, does this mean that we finally found the question?!
> >>>>
> >>>> Actually I miscalculated the answer (42 = 0x2A = *):
> >>>>
> >>>> W = 0x57 = 87
> >>>> h = 0x68 = 104
> >>>> y = 0x79 = 121
> >>>> ? = 0x3F = 63
> >>>>
> >>>> 87 - 104 + 121 - 63 = 41
> >>>>
> >>>> So the correct answer is probably: 41 = 0x29
> >>>
> >>> = ')'. So, with all the power of the computer that is Earth, it falls
> >>> one short of the actual ultimate answer? No wonder the Vogons
> >>> destroyed her.
> >>>
> >>> OAU
> >>
> >> I am obliged to point out that it was Deep Thought who came up with the
> >> answer, and got it right; and the Earth's job was to work out the
> >> question.
> >
> > And? All I claimed was that the question the Earth came up with has a
> > different answer, which falls one short of the ultimate one...
>
> But, as we all know, the question the Earth came up with was "What do you
> get if you multiply six by nine", which is off by twelve, not one!
We don't know if that's the question the Earth came up with. All we know
is that was *one* of the questions the Earth came up with. It remained a
mystery whether that really was the ultimate question. Besides, with the
universe being as crazy as it is, the above question may not be off by as
much as you think.
> >> Score -5 sci-fi pedant points and drop a hippo on yourself!
> >
> > ...so take that hippo and...
>
> Drop it on you?
Oh, go feed it custard!
OAU