* Messier object M42, a magnitude 5.0 diffuse nebula in the constellation Orion, also known as the Orion Nebula * The New General Catalogue object NGC 42, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus * The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on 1577 BC April 28 and ended on 297 BC June 5. The duration of Saros series 42 was 1280.1 years, and it contained 72 solar eclipses. * The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on 1293 BC January 24 and ended on 59 April 15. The duration of Saros series 42 was 1352.2 years, and it contained 76 lunar eclipses. * Gliese 42 is a magnitude 7.17 K3 V orange dwarf nearby star (14.5 pc) in Sculptor, also known as HD 5133, CD-31°325, G269-049, GCTP 177.00, and LHS 1163. * Ross 42 is a magnitude 11.52 dM4 e red dwarf nearby star (14.1 pc) in Orion, also known as Gliese 206, G097-047, and GCTP 1259.00. * The planet Uranus' north and south poles face the sun 42 years before switching, (example) the north pole experiences 42 years of summer and 42 years of winter and vice versa.
In religion
* The number of generations in the Gospel of Matthew's version of the Genealogy of Jesus * The number of months the Beast will hold dominion over the Earth (Revelation 13:5) * In the ancient Chinese text the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu, chapter 42 is an explanation of the universe * The number of men of Beth-azmaveth in the census of men of Israel upon return from exile (Ezra 2:24) * God sends bears to maul 42 of the youths who mock Elisha for his baldness (2 Kings 2:23) * There are 42 principles of Ma'at * The number of lines on each page of the Gutenberg Bible, the oldest surviving book printed with movable type * 42 is the number of lines in the Ancient Philosophy of Nasadiya Sukta from the Rig Veda which coincidentally gives an insight into the creation of universe.
42 is a common metasyntactic variable used by programmers. In the TIFF image file format, the second 16-bit word of every file is 42, which is used together with the first word to indicate byte order. In the reiser4 file system, 42 is the inode number of the root directory.
The code number for the Microsoft .NET platform is 42, since it is their answer to "The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything". It also happens to be the building number that the Microsoft .NET CLR is built in.
The help entry 42 (accessed by typing ":h 42" in command mode) in the Vim text editor displays a reference to Douglas Adams.
42 is the number of U-slots in a standard IBM computer room rack. In pop culture The Ultimate Answer Enlarge The Ultimate Answer
* The number 42 is The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, according to Douglas Adams' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Numerous others have parodied this supposed mysticism of 42. o If one types "the answer to life, the universe, and everything" into Google (without the quote marks), one will receive the answer 42 by Google calculator (See the above). o Geoff Fortytwo (formerly Busker) is a computer scientist who legally changed his surname in 1997 to reflect the Answer. o Using some versions of a word processor known as an AlphaSmart, when one types in an equation whose solution is 42, the sentence "The answer to life, the universe and everything" appears before displaying 42. o In one of the subsequent books in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, it is implied that the question to which 42 is the answer is "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?". It has been noted that six times nine equals 42 in base 13. Whilst some have been tempted to infer significance in this (for example, that God has thirteen fingers), Douglas Adams denied that he was aware of this alternate solution when he wrote the book. He stated, "I may be a pretty sad person, but I don't make jokes in base 13." + It was postulated, by mice, that the Question was, "How many roads must a man walk down?" Whether or not this is the case is unclear. * The number of student "players" in a regulation Battle Royale is 42. * In the game of Risk, there are 42 territories to be conquered. * Another not so well known property is that 1337 is in fact the alternate(negative) answer.
In technology 42 is a common metasyntactic variable used by programmers. In the TIFF image file format, the second 16-bit word of every file is 42, which is used together with the first word to indicate byte order. In the reiser4 file system, 42 is the inode number of the root directory.
The code number for the Microsoft .NET platform is 42, since it is their answer to "The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything". It also happens to be the building number that the Microsoft .NET CLR is built in.
The help entry 42 (accessed by typing ":h 42" in command mode) in the Vim text editor displays a reference to Douglas Adams.
42 is the number of U-slots in a standard IBM computer room rack.
In other fields In AdventureQuest, there is a door with the number 42 on it, which, if you click on it, it says "This door contains the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. It is locked, bolted, and duct-taped shut." a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy * On Neopets a programmer named Ollie constantly says 42 in reply to Neomails about the Altador Plot * The Number of Quatraines that remain in Nostradamus's 7th Century. * The number of U.S. gallons of oil contained in one barrel of oil * The age at which Elvis Presley died * The age at which Satchel Paige, St. Louis Browns (1906-1982) became the American League's first black pitcher in 1948 * The age at which Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, retired as the oldest NBA player in 1989 * The maximum number received of any one present in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas * In Lewis Carroll's book, The Hunting of the Snark, which he wrote at the age of 42, "one who was famed for the number of things/ He forgot when he entered the ship:" had "...forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,/ With his name painted clearly on each:/ But, since he omitted to mention the fact/ They were all left behind on the beach." Its preface also references a 'rule 42' ("No one shall speak to the Man at the Helm") * Carroll's Alice has 42 illustrations. In Chapter XII, the king explains "the oldest rule in the book": "Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court" * The sum of the numbers or pips on a pair of conventional (six-sided) dice * The name of a Texan trick-taking game played with dominoes (see 42 (dominoes)). * The number of the French department Loire. * The name of an equipment finance and lease management product built by Northern Arch * The minimum age one had to have been to be elected a consul in the Roman Republic
* Part of the name of 42 BELOW, a vodka produced in New Zealand. * The number of perfect squares formed by the grid at a 19x19 Go board, when the "squares" are slightly rectangular with the ratio 13/12, as required by tradition. * The number of hours that the potion caused Juliet to sleep for (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene 1, line 105) * In Japanese, 4 (shi) and 2 (ni) are together pronounced like "going to death" (??). Because of that, in Japan, 42 is considered as a disastrous number * Age (in years) of the horse that drove Mr. Pickwick to Golden Cross, as reported by a cabman (The Pickwick Papers, Chapter III) * The number of holes on a Connect Four game board * The number of stones each side has in the most common game type of Mancala with two rows of six pits with seven pieces in each pit * The number of legs on the Centipede in Roald Dahl's book James and the Giant Peach * The world record for the most amount of people in one car is 42 * In Scene One of "The Island" by Athol Fugard, John remarks that, "[Cell block] Number 42 is practising the Zulu War Dance" * There were originally 42 columns and 42 figures from Greek myth in the Parthenon
In science The atomic number of molybdenum. The element following molybdenum with atomic number 43 (technetium) has no stable isotopes. * The number of teeth wolves and dogs (canines) have. * 42° is the critical angle of refraction by water - it is the angle between a rainbow and the antisolar point. See The Rainbow Bridge (Sample Chapter) * The light leaving a rainbow is spread over a wide angle, with a maximum intensity around 42°
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