if you mean the giant robot thing from the book the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams that is also a movie, then it was 42.
42. This was the question posed to a super computer, Deep Thought by name, with a brain the size of a planet and after zillions of years of cogitation, the above was the answer given to the question.
In the movie, according to the supercomputer Deep Thought, the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42. When asked what the answer meant Deep Thought replied that in order to understand the answer you first had to ask the right question. Unfortunately, no one has ever figured out what the question was.*"The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" was a BBC radio series (which began in 1978), a book series by Douglas Adams (which began in 1979) and a motion picture (2005). "Life, the Universe, and Everything" was published in 1982, and the 2003 radio production featured a posthumous cameo appearance by Douglas Adams (1952-2001).The meaning of life is 42. The ultimate question is 'What do you get if you multiply six by nine?' which IS 42 in base 13. The ultimate question is also 'What is total paradise?' which was interpreted as 'What is the total of a pair of dice' which is, if you care to check, 42.
We will probably never know why 42 is the ultimate answer, because we will likely never know the question."What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9" is not the correct question. That was a corruption of the question, encoded in Arthur Dent's brain patterns. The complex biological computer program (also known as "the Earth") which had been calculating the question for millions of years got screwed up when the Golgafrinchans arrived on prehistoric Earth and destroyed the environment.
Some unanswered questions from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" include the identity of the being behind Deep Thought's creation, the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, and the true nature of the dolphins' intelligence and purpose. These mysteries allow for reader interpretation and speculation, adding to the charm and whimsy of the story.
If you mean the scene in book 3 (Life, The Universe and Everything) where Arthur and Ford are on prehistoric Earth with the Golgafrinchans and Arthur tries to find the Ultimate Question by pulling Scrabble tiles at random from a bag, it's because Arthur is actually descended from the Golgafrinchans rather than the early humans, who eventually die out, taking the real question with them. This means that the question 'What do you get if you multiply six by nine?' is, as Ford says, "either the wrong one or a distortion of the right one."
42. This was the question posed to a super computer, Deep Thought by name, with a brain the size of a planet and after zillions of years of cogitation, the above was the answer given to the question.
Wikipedia sais:In the first novel and radio series, a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer, Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42. Unfortunately, The Ultimate Question itself is unknown.
Nobody. The answer is 42, not 1942. And it was Deep Thought who calculated it.
In the movie, according to the supercomputer Deep Thought, the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42. When asked what the answer meant Deep Thought replied that in order to understand the answer you first had to ask the right question. Unfortunately, no one has ever figured out what the question was.*"The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" was a BBC radio series (which began in 1978), a book series by Douglas Adams (which began in 1979) and a motion picture (2005). "Life, the Universe, and Everything" was published in 1982, and the 2003 radio production featured a posthumous cameo appearance by Douglas Adams (1952-2001).The meaning of life is 42. The ultimate question is 'What do you get if you multiply six by nine?' which IS 42 in base 13. The ultimate question is also 'What is total paradise?' which was interpreted as 'What is the total of a pair of dice' which is, if you care to check, 42.
According to Douglas Adams, it is 42. In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, this is the answer given by Deep Thought, a computer designed to come up with THE answer. Earth was a computer designed to come up with the question.
Deep Thoughts from a Shallow Mind was created on 1994-09-13.
The name of the computer in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is Deep Thought. Deep Thought is a supercomputer designed to calculate the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Its creation and purpose play a significant role in the storyline of the book by Douglas Adams.
The phrase "life, the universe, and everything else" is often used to encompass all aspects of existence and the unknown. It reflects a deep philosophical inquiry into the nature of reality, consciousness, and the mysteries of the universe. It hints at the profound interconnectedness of all things and the quest for meaning and understanding in the vastness of existence.
like the last person said its 42 because 42 is categoriacly inverted by the integers of the divine fraction, thus making it a necesary key to the sub-complex division of life's true cause. This was proved by philosopher Charles Leland in the 19th Century. But the real thing that we need to know now is the question to the answer to life, the universe, and everything. What is 6x7 is the question that they came up with, but if the true question to the answer were discovered while we know the answer, the universe would explode and then reform even more insane than it was this time. It is theorized that this has already happened several times already. Another reason for 42 is that, in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Deep Thought says that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42. When they try to find the ultimate question, Arthur Dent realizes that his brain contains the question, and he draws tiles out of a bag saying: What do you get when you multiply six by nine?
We will probably never know why 42 is the ultimate answer, because we will likely never know the question."What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9" is not the correct question. That was a corruption of the question, encoded in Arthur Dent's brain patterns. The complex biological computer program (also known as "the Earth") which had been calculating the question for millions of years got screwed up when the Golgafrinchans arrived on prehistoric Earth and destroyed the environment.
42 or forty-two is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. This Answer was first calculated by the supercomputer Deep Thought after seven and a half million years of thought. This shocking answer resulted in the construction of an even larger supercomputer, named Earth, which was tasked with determining what the question was in the first place. The Earth was destroyed by the Vogons five minutes before its ten-million year program to find the Ultimate Question,
Black Holes.