From: Miriam English (miriam@werple.net.au)
Date: Sun Aug 26 2001 - 02:38:58 MDT
At 01:22 PM 26/08/2001 +1000, Damien Broderick wrote:
>At 03:45 PM 8/25/01 -0400, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> >Of course, I've often wondered why numerologists haven't figured out
> >Adams' joke. 42 is ascii for "DB", or database.
>
>Damn! So close, so far, no cigar. But I might as well come clean. Yes, I
>wrote the `Douglas Adams' novels, leaving this clue hidden in the text.
>Anyone doubting this can compare the Hitchhiker books with my other comic
>novel STRIPED HOLES (which didn't sell nearly as well, oddly enough).
Heheheh :-)
Actually, 42 decimal gives you the ASCII character * -- the star, which I
always thought was a nice touch.
Buggered if I can see how Mr Lorrey gets DB out of it. If you take 42 as
being hexadecimal you can get the ASCII letter B... but where he comes up
with the D....?
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