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Re: Why?


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


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