101010base2 = 42base10 = the answer to life, …

Posted: 10th October 2010 by Rick Deckardt in blogpost
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… the universe, and well.. you know, everything …


Where did Douglas Adams get this wisdom? Well, I think he knew something about character codes in ASCII…

* is the most widely used ‘wildcard’ character in computing, and Deep Thought was a computer, its only logical. *POOF* now the Universe is completely different and this explanation will not suffice anymore.

Happy 10/10/10 folks!

PS: π% of 1337 = 42 (rounded)

image courtesy of Gizmodo/wolframalpha

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