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Re:The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody ... by moosterv on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:07AM (#21135971)
101010 in binary... (I owe, I owe, I owe)
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Re:The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody ... by mar77i on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:19AM (#21136068)
Apparently DA didn't think anything of the value of the number and just determined "42 will do"...
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Re:The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody ... by rusk on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @10:17AM (#21136696)
I believe it was ”pick a number, any number” which was disclosed by Marvin quite early on, apparently as an easter egg. I read something explaining this somewhere ... don’t have the link to hand ...
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