https://www.livescience.com/diophantine-42-solved-meaning-of-life.html
"In Douglas Adams' sci-fi series
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
a pair of programmers task the galaxy's largest supercomputer with
answering the ultimate question of the meaning of life, the universe and
everything. After 7.5 million years of processing, the computer reaches
an answer: 42. Only then do the programmers realize that nobody knew the
question the program was meant to answer.
Now, in this week's most satisfying example of life reflecting art, a
pair of mathematicians have used a global network of 500,000 computers
to solve a centuries-old math puzzle that just happens to involve that
most crucial number: 42."
Via Janet Logan.
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