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antonis-gr | 3 months ago

42 is an extremely non-special number. Does anyone know if it appeared in the CS field before Douglas Addams "invented" it?

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layer8|3 months ago

What do you mean, non-special? 42 is the magic constant of the smallest non-trivial magic cube.

hnlmorg|3 months ago

It’s also an integer. Who ch I pretty special when you consider that most numbers in nature are real.

slim|3 months ago

*was