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0 pointsep1033mo ago0 comments

Some one should let Douglas Adams know the calculation could have been so much faster if the machine just lied.

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lesam3mo ago· 2 in thread

I think Adams was prescient, since in his story the all powerful computer reaches the answer '42' via incorrect arithmetic.

xg153mo ago

The Bistromathics? That's not incorrect, it's simply too advanced for us to understand.

aktau3mo ago

“What do you get if you multiply six by nine?”

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