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In Douglas Adams' sci-fi series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," a pair of programmers task the galaxy's largest supercomputer with answering the ultimate question of the meaning of life, the universe and everything. After 7.5 million years of processing, the computer reaches an answer: 42. Only then do the programmers realize that nobody knew the question the program was meant to answer.
Now, in this week's most satisfying example of life reflecting art, a pair of mathematicians have used a global network of 500,000 computers to solve a centuries-old math puzzle that just happens to involve that most crucial number: 42.
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Now, in this week's most satisfying example of life reflecting art, a pair of mathematicians have used a global network of 500,000 computers to solve a centuries-old math puzzle that just happens to involve that most crucial number: 42.
Full story:
https://www.livescience
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x = (-80538738812075974)
y = (80435758145817515)
z = (12602123297335631)
For example: 1+2=3 is the same thing as 3=2+1.
In this case, the equation was x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = 42. They had to solve for x, y and z. But in the end, the answer was still 42. Just because they had the answer at the beginning and needed to solve the rest of the equation doesn't change that. So it isn't exactly deceptive.
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