Today is October 10, 2010 which abbreviated is 10/10/10. In binary 101010 is 42 (32+8+2) which many of you may recognize as the number “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” defines as “the answer to life the universe and everything”. What’s cool is if you run a search for this phrase on Google or Bing, the first result is 42.
If you are looking for lots of other fun facts from mathematics to religion which involve the number 42, check out Wikipedia’s entry on the number 42. Fun stuff for a date that happens once every 100 years.
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I don’t believe it is a special day, but I saw many children were born today. Nice article, BTW!
Interesting stuff, I wonder if anyone who turns 42 today feels anything special about this?
Yes! Fantastic! Thanks for all this very important information about 42, I wish more success to this very interesting blog. Waiting for your next great post>