From the best comic writer[0] how he found the answer to be a little more than 41: The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a num

From the best comic writer[0] how he found the answer to be a little more than 41: 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. There is no amount of research that can take this away from me. [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy)#The_number_42 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the...