Tag Archives: 42

More powers of 3

Posted on October 20, 2019 by

Following the discovery of a question to which the answer is 42, the same team has now reported a sum of three cubes equal to 3.  As before, the result can be checked from Excel, linking to mpmath, via pyxll. … Continue reading →

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The answer to Life the Universe and Everything …

Posted on September 19, 2019 by

is 42, as is well-known: The actual question, to which the answer is 42, is not known, but a lesser known long standing question involving this number has recently been solved: The original problem, set in 1954 at the University … Continue reading →

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