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Have a great one Slarti!
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:bighug: :bighug: :bighug: Slarti!!

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Happy birthday :fiesta: :fiesta:
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Happy Birthday!

You need to create a complex set of equations to solve that will tell us your age. Nothing off limits, either. :mrgreen:
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Thanks all!

Humblescribe,

Not an equation, but a riddle -- if Arthur was right about the Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, then my age is the answer.

How old am I?

A piece of cake to the first person who gets it right.
(and shows their work)
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If you give away the cake how are we going to power the Total Perspective Vortex?

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42?
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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: Fri Mar 03, 2023 10:03 pm42?
Did you read the fine print? (You must show your work, i.e. explain the answer, to get cake)
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I saw the movie in which that was answered by mice overlords. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. :biggrin:
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Happy Birthday Arthur!!!
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Happy Birthday!

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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: Fri Mar 03, 2023 10:16 pm I saw the movie in which that was answered by mice overlords. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. :biggrin:
Everyone knows that the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42*, but I have not been on this Earth for two score and two years. I'll give it a little more time if anyone else cares to try to answer before I explain the maths.


* Of course, I know what the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is, but that's another story...

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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: Fri Mar 03, 2023 10:16 pm I saw the movie in which that was answered by mice overlords. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. :biggrin:
Technically speaking, the "mice overlords" are vast hyperintelligent pandimensional beings who, in addition to their fascination with Brockian ultra-cricket, are deeply philosophical. The ancestors of Frankie and Benji (or Lunkwell and Fook, as they are known to their people) constructed a supercomputer, Deep Thought, to answer the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. After millions of years, it came up with the answer 421. They then asked Deep Thought if he could tell them what the question was, and although he couldn't, he told them that he could design the computer that could -- a planet-sized computer with organic life as a part of its matrix running a program millions of years long. The Magratheans were then commissioned to build the computer2 and the hyperintelligent pandimensional beings took the form of mice to supervise the project. Unfortunately, the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet ship B4 crash landed8 on Earth in pre-historic times and supplanted the native population.

Arthur Dent, marooned on Earth in the past10 just after the Golgafrinchan's arrived, figures that as a descendant of the Golgafrinchans that was on the Earth until 5 minutes before the program was complete12 a modified version of the question should be in his mind. To ascertain what it is, he draws letter tiles from the bag of a Scrabble game he made16. He draws the tiles: "W-H-A-T-D-O-Y-O-U-G-E-T-W-H-E-N-Y-O-U-M-U-L-T-I-P-L-Y-S-I-X-T-I-M-E-S-N-I-N-E". Curiously, it turns out that when you multiply 6 times 9, the answer is "42"... in base thirteen17. In an interview, Douglas Adams20 was asked about this apparent coincidence and replied, "I don't make jokes in base 1327.

Thus, the answer to the riddle of my age28 is that I am 4213 years old29. While this answer may seem contrived31, Humblescribe did say:
humblescribe wrote: Fri Mar 03, 2023 6:39 pm Happy Birthday!

You need to create a complex set of equations33 to solve that will tell us your age. Nothing off limits, either37. :mrgreen:
So, to make a long story short40, or at least to sum up, the answer is always... Forty two42.


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  1. And suggested that they didn't really understand the question in the first place.
  2. Called "Earth"3.
  3. Fjords by Slartibartfast
  4. Full of telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants5.
  5. Ark Fleet ships A and C were supposed to carry the people who ruled, thought, or actually did useful work6.
  6. Although all of these people remained on the planet7.
  7. And subsequently died from a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.
  8. Which it was explicitly programed to do9.
  9. Because the Ark Ship B Golgafrinchans were a 'bunch of useless idiots'.
  10. Long Story11.
  11. Which can be found in Life, the Universe, and Everything....
  12. Escaping just before said planet was destroyed by the Vogons13, 15.
  13. c.f. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy14.
  14. All versions.
  15. To build a hyperspatial expressway.
  16. And was trying to teach to the original ape-like inhabitants of Earth.
  17. 4213 = 4 * 131 + 2 * 130 = 541018.
  18. 5410 = 6 * 919
  19. Just in case you're not keeping up. :towel:
  20. Who, if you don't know21, is the author of the 25Hitchhiker's Trilogy22.
  21. What, seriously? You don't know Douglas Adams is?
  22. Which is 5 books23
  23. 6 if you include And Another Thing...24, 26.
  24. The conclusion to the 25Hitchhiker's trilogy.
  25. Inaccurately named.
  26. Which I do.
  27. Although possibly G-d does.
  28. You didn't forget the riddle, did you?
  29. Which is to say 54 if you haven't been paying attention30.
  30. Why haven't you been paying attention?
  31. With a number32 of gratuitous footnotes.
  32. Can you guess which one?
  33. This is more fun34.
  34. Or annoying35.
  35. Depending on your point of view36.
  36. Yes, this is just getting ridiculous39.
  37. Your words, not mine38.
  38. Are you sorry you asked yet?
  39. But it is going somewhere.
  40. Too41.
  41. Not also.
  42. You see what I did there? :towel:
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I loved teaching different bases when I taught math last century. Thanks for the more complete answer, Slarti! :biggrin:
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That was quite the read, Birthday Boy!

"No job too big or too small" must be your mantra.

I was not familiar with the Hitchhiker and his guides to the galaxies. (Although I used to drive a Ford Galaxy, but I digress.)

Much thanks! :groupdance:
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