Why is it The answer to life is 42 on Wikipedia?

Answer 1

because the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy says so

another answer:

This is an ironic joke from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams. When a supposedly all-knowing SuperComputer is asked the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, the answer given is: "42." In another context, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the ultimate answer is "6 times 9, or 42." Of course, 6 times 9 does NOT equal 42, and therein lies the irony.

Answer 2

In Douglas Adams' novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," a supercomputer was asked to find the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything. After much computation, the answer it provided was simply the number 42, which was meant to be humorous and thought-provoking rather than a serious answer. This concept has since been referenced and popularized in popular culture, leading to its mention on Wikipedia.

Answer 3

In the movie Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which was based of of a book series whose first book shared the same title as the movie, a civilization built the universe's most powerful computer and asked it, "What is the meaning to life, the universe, and everything?" The computer thought for many years and then gave them the answer 42. The author of the books later put a puzzle on the cover of his books. The answer was 42, but the tricky part was finding the picture was asking.

Answer 4

Yes it is the meaning of life is 42. There are two ways to prove:

1.)In the book 'The Answer To Life, The Universe' there is a message saying something like '6 x 9 = ??? That is the Answer'.

2.) Count how many letters there are in 'The Answer to Life, the universe and everything is'. That does not include spaces but count the comma as a letter.

(The easiest way is tallies on a sheet of paper.)

Answer 5

Life = 14, The Universe = 14, And Everything = 14

14 + 14 + 14 = 42.

because....

In Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the number from which all meaning ("the meaning of life, the universe, and everything") could be derived.

A BBC radio script based on Adams' book contains the following lines:

("Cave man" lays out following sentence in Scrabble stones: "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?")

Arthur: Six by nine? Forty-two? You know, I've always felt that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Universe.

(Faint and distant voice:) Base thirteen!

For the literal-minded and those unfamiliar with terms like "base thirteen," this is a number system in which the number 10 is equivalent to our more familiar decimal 13. A base-13 number 42, therefore, is the same as four 13s plus 2, or decimal 54. So "six by nine" (six times nine) or decimal 54 is, in base 13, 42. For the mystically inclined, 42 in base 13 is the same as 101010 in binary (base 2). This could mean almost anything, and many Adams fans have spent untold hours discovering all of the places where the number "42" pops up. For example, there are many mentions of the number in the Book of Revelation. Others have made a game of finding 42s, such as these:

• The angle at which light reflects off of water to create a rainbow is 42 degrees.
• Two physical constants in the universe are the speed of light and the diameter of a proton. It takes light 10 to the minus 42nd power seconds to cross the diameter of a proton.
• The sum of the ordinal alphabetic positions of the initials (SPG) for Stan (P.) Gibilisco, an oft-published science and technology writer, is equal to 42 (S=19, P=16, G=7).
• A barrel holds 42 gallons.

Answer 6

There is no logical explanation for that. Seriously.

Answer 7

Yes. Sorry, "how?" is a second question.