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My math is correct too, and I still got 42. |
Originally Posted by Decorum
Your math is correct.
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Hmmmm. Deep Thought got the answer without the question. Since the absence of the question entails a guess, it must have guessed. It then interpolated that the guess was indeed correct. This is the part that took all of that time.
The set of all rational numbers is infinite. To guess a single number from all rational numbers you would have to have all rational numbers in memory and chose one. Otherwise you would be choosing from a subset and the answer would be invalid.
This is prima facie impossible. Therefore the computer cheated.
42 is NOT the answer. 
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Then it only needed to do 5 more impossible things before having dinner at Milliways.
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Originally Posted by Scooby_Dont
This is prima facie impossible.
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Yeah never did read any of those. Seems to me I enjoyed one of the books about some kind of a detective though. Don't recall much about it though. Hopefully someone can refresh my memory.
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Originally Posted by Decorum
Your math is correct. All you're showing is that you haven't read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe" (and you should, they're fun books!).
EDIT: D'oh, everyone there before me. |
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"Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" and "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul".
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Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee
Yeah never did read any of those. Seems to me I enjoyed one of the books about some kind of a detective though. Don't recall much about it though. Hopefully someone can refresh my memory.
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A bus? |
BashfulBanshee needs a third choice: Which one can you put Kevin in front of? |
**dances by a tractor**
Dec out.
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Not impossible, just infinitely improbable*. And we all know how that turns out... |
Originally Posted by Scooby_Dont
The set of all rational numbers is infinite. To guess a single number from all rational numbers you would have to have all rational numbers in memory and chose one. Otherwise you would be choosing from a subset and the answer would be invalid.
This is prima facie impossible. Therefore the computer cheated. |
Edit: Also, Deep Thought was created by the pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings (whose three dimensional protrusions into our universe are ordinary white mice). So we can assume they're a lot better at making computers than we are. (And we can also assume that a computer built by pan-dimensional beings would itself be pan-dimensional.) And even with all the extra awesome that these pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent beings' power, Deep Thought was still the size of a small city.
It took 7.5 million years to come up with '42', and Deep Thought assures us (the reader, and the pan-dimensional beings) that he checked it "very thoroughly", and 42 is "quite definitely" the answer.
* Since we apparently have some non-hitchhikers with us, the spaceship used by the protagonists runs on an "infinite improbability drive", which causes the ship to simultaneously visit every point in the universe before arriving at its destination. Also, it caused two incoming missiles to transmute into a blue whale and a bowl of petunias.
... a bowl of petunias which said "oh no, not again".
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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Aw, Belgium. I always thought it was a sperm whale, not a blue whale.
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Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
Also, it caused two incoming missiles to transmute into a blue whale and a bowl of petunias.
... a bowl of petunias which said "oh no, not again". |
I might be wrong, going off of memory, here.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
Ooh thats right SnowGlobe. Thank you for jogging my ever fleeting memory.
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The bowl of petunias...
The three sea shells...
Gotta love the sense of humor some authors have.
Also, as I recall, the greater the improbability, the quicker the ship got you there, I think...
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Yes but, what or who was the bowl of petunias? |
Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
... a bowl of petunias which said "oh no, not again". |
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.
EDIT: D'oh, everyone there before me.
Dec out.
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