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It doesn't really relate to math so much, it is just from a famous book, called the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. It was this supercomputer that finally calculated the answer to life as 42, after about 7 and a half million years.

Yup, that's why it so special, if you hear anyone say that.

But after all that they discovered that they'd asked the wrong question and then had to build another supercomputer to figure out what the right question should have been!

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