fortytwo

The ori­gin of the num­ber “42” was explai­ned by the aut­hor Dou­glas Adams in a Use­net pos­ting from 1993. When asked why the ans­wer is “42”, he wrote:

The ans­wer to this is very sim­ple. It was a joke. It had to be a num­ber, an ordi­nary, smallish num­ber, and I chose that one. Binary rep­re­sen­ta­ti­ons, base thir­teen, Tibe­tan monks are all com­plete non­sense. I sat at my desk, sta­red into the gar­den and thought 42 will do. I typed it out. End of story.

Source: Wiki­pe­dia

I do recom­mend the last ent­ries of my Project42!