Sounds to me like they would just swing at each other for a long time at a stalemate. Neither would win.
Yeah; sounds like a Jack/Eochai situation. They can stand there and hit each other all day until passing heroes can't even deal the minumum damage % to qualify for rewards.
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No, no, no. The Ultimate question is "What is nine times six?"
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Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot
No, no, no. The Ultimate question is "What is nine times six?"
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Wrong. It's "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
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Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot
No, no, no. The Ultimate question is "What is nine times six?"
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no no no. it's what is this? 6.9
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Originally Posted by Katie V
Wrong. It's "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
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It's been a long while since I was at school and had to do any ciphering, but I'm pretty sure that works out to be 54.|
Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot
No, no, no. The Ultimate question is "What is nine times six?"
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Hope thats right because otherwise I'll look dumb. Well dumber.
Enjoy your day please.
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You are correct, assuming the equation asked was in base 10. (which is a valid assumption and won't get the typical assumption response from me|
Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee
It's been a long while since I was at school and had to do any ciphering, but I'm pretty sure that works out to be 54.
Hope thats right because otherwise I'll look dumb. Well dumber. |
)I like Master-Blade's answer better though.
There I was between a rock and a hard place. Then I thought, "What am I doing on this side of the rock?"
42.
I used to fiddle with my back feet music for a black onyx. My entire room absorbed every echo. The music was . . . thud like. The music was . . . thud like. I usually played such things as rough-neck and thug. Opaque melodies that would bug most people. Music from the other side of the fence.
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Any proper nerd would answer 42 for any permutation of 6 x 9.
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Originally Posted by Twisted Toon
You are correct, assuming the equation asked was in base 10. (which is a valid assumption and won't get the typical assumption response from me
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http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
Umm, I read the books and the question was 6 times 7 - no 9s involved.
Clearly, you folks read about the Answer, but have no comprehension of the Question!
Be Well!
Fireheart
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You might want to re-read them. It really is 6 times 9. Which is one of the reasons it's funny. Adams wrote it that way on purpose. |
Originally Posted by Fireheart
Umm, I read the books and the question was 6 times 7 - no 9s involved.
Clearly, you folks read about the Answer, but have no comprehension of the Question! Be Well! Fireheart |
Hmmm Why is everyone saying its 42?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee
Hmmm Why is everyone saying its 42?
Inquiring minds want to know. |
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I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot
No, no, no. The Ultimate question is "What is nine times six?"
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Yours, too.
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Originally Posted by Dreaming_Shadow
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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This thread is like watching a protracted game of Brockian Ultra Cricket - without the wall.|
Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Your geek card, if you ever possessed one, is hereby rescinded.
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9x6 in a Base10 number system is 54, yes.. but we are referencing a Base13 system here. A Base10 system has 10 numbers (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9), so a Base13 system would have 13 (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C).|
Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee
Hmmm Why is everyone saying its 42?
Inquiring minds want to know. |
I'll draw up a table to demonstrate how 54 in Base10 is equivalent to 42 in Base13:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- A
- B
- C
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 1A
- 1B
- 1C
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 2A
- 2B
- 2C
- 30
- 31
- 32
- 33
- 34
- 35
- 36
- 37
- 38
- 39
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- 3B
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- 40
- 41
- 42
Another way to convert 42 in Base13 into Base10 would be to multiply 4 by 13, then add 2:
4x13 = 52
52+2 = 54
Therefore, 4213 = 5410
And since both 9 and 6 remain unchanged in both number systems, a valid answer to 9x6 (regardless which Base is being used) is 4213
I hope that clears it up a bit... then again, does it strike anybody funny that in Base10, 6x7=42, and 6+7=13, and the answer to our question was 42 in base 13, both derived from 6 and 7? There is a conspiracy somewhere! lol
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In the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, a computer named Deep Thought calculates that the answer to "Life, the Universe, and Everything" is 42. When the creators of the computer are extremely confused (and who wouldn't be?), the computer replies that while the answer was correct, the creators were confused because they didn't have the question (which is also why it took so long to calculate the answer).|
Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee
Hmmm Why is everyone saying its 42?
Inquiring minds want to know. |
The same race then creates a bigger computer to calculate the question. That computer was called Earth. Unfortunately, the second computer was destroyed by Vogons just minutes before the calculation was completed, in order to construct a hyperspace bypass. You've got to build bypasses.
Later, they discover the question. I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe...
(Note: While 6 x 9 does equal 42 in base 13, Douglas Adams didn't intend any actual connection between the question and answer when writing.)
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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Hmm. How many roads must a man walk down? No... Too vague.
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Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot
No, no, no. The Ultimate question is "What is nine times six?"
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Complete and utter nonsense. I challenge you to a philosophical debate. |
Originally Posted by Master-Blade
9x6 in a Base10 number system is 54, yes.. but we are referencing a Base13 system here. A Base10 system has 10 numbers (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9), so a Base13 system would have 13 (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,C).
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I don't demand solid facts! What I demand is a total absence of solid facts. I demand that I may or may not be Snow Globe!
You just let the machines get on with the adding up and we'll take care of the eternal verities thank you very much. You want to check your legal position you do mate. Under law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. Any bloody machine goes and actually finds it and we're straight out of a job aren't we? I mean what's the use of our sitting up half the night arguing that there may or may not be a God if this machine only goes and gives us his bleeding phone number the next morning? We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
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The Ultimate Question is Bacon or Bacon!!?
Comic and Hero/Villain Culture
Saturday January 29th, 2005 (12:37 PM) ~ Monday August 9th, 2010
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We Will Remember This One Moment In Time! ~ Shadow Ravenwolf
Who would win in a fight? Invincible Reichsman or tower-buffed Recluse? Assume that, for whatever reasons, the towers can't/aren't attacked and Recluse doesn't have a Dimensional Grounding Ray.