Hitch-Hackers Guide To the Galaxy 84
An anonymous reader writes "Jay Beale, of Bastille Linux fame, has written a hacking puzzle short story based on Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It's called Hitch-Hackers Guide to the Galaxy. The short story is pretty funny and the puzzle lets you have some quick fun with web hacking. There are prizes for best technical answer and most creative (while technically correct) answer."
Best answer (Score:3, Funny)
Quite clearly they're looking for "42".
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Umm... What was the answer again?
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For tea, too. Or something like that.
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Quite clearly they're looking for "42".
I'm afraid not. One of the criteria was "creative".
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You can't even remember the book. The question in the book was "WHAT IS SIX TIMES NINE".
The answer is 42.
Exact phrasing (Score:2)
Pretty much means the same as the parent, though.
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They can spew BS like that.
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As a side note, I recall Douglas Adams had one overzealous fan (like ourselves) write to him claiming that six times nine equals 42 in base thirteen, and that therefore the universe of Hitchhiker's Guide was built around base 13.
His response was something to the effect of "Nice idea, I wish I'd thought of it."
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7 x 9 = 63 in base 10.
But 42 in base 13 is only 54 (4 x 13 + 2).
And 42 in base 14 is only 58 (4 x 14 + 2).
It's almost in base 15, which is 62 (4 x 15 + 2).
It's not actually possible to write 63 as 42 in an integer base. You can, however, do it in a noninteger base, and in fact, base 15.25 works (4 x 15.25 + 2 = 63!).
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I doff my cap in admiration.
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All we can be sure of is that "what is six times nine" is at a minimum slightly off from
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Except that most geeks will use the number 42 every chance they get and chuckle over it. I'm as guilty as the rest of us, but it is a bit hackneyed, notwithstanding that you found a room full of anthropologists who didn't get it.
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This gives a whole new meaning to the Blue Poem Of Death.
In Korea, only old Vogons throw people out of space ships.
Does Marvin run Linux?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of depressed robots!
I don't have a Heart of Gold, you insensitive clod!
I for one welcome our new Vogon overlords.
It's not a moon. It's a Vogon constructor fleet.
1. Find the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything.
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OT'ish:RIP William Franklyn, the Voice Of The Book (Score:2)
Cheers,
Ian
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Utterly making up an answer on the spot, perhaps Zaphod doesn't call him Ford - perhaps the Babel Fish just lets Arthur (and by implication the reader) think he's said Ford.
Cheers,
Ian
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He did say it whilst in the waiting room.
"Ford! you're turning into a penguin! Stop it!"
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Ford Prefect's original name is only pronounceable in an obscure Betelgeusian dialect, now virtually extinct since the Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Gal./Sid.Year 03758 which wiped out all the old Praxibetel communities on Betelgeuse Seven. Ford's father was the only man on the entire planet to survive the Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster, by an extraordinary coincidence that he was never able satisfactorily to explain. The whole episode is shrouded in deep mystery: in f
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At infinite improbability level, such things are to be expected.
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I surf with comments folded out at 2 and visible at -1.
And I have the troll option metamodded at +2.
Only Pansies surf at 5.
Grammar (Score:2)
Come on editors, this isn't an AOL chatroom...
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wow (Score:2)
I didn't know I had my own guide to the galaxy!
Thanks slashdot.
42nd post! (Score:2)
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Infinitely Improbable? (Score:2)
Okay, so he's got a script that will let him send the contents of this document.cookie to his kitchen server by including them in a request for a
Wouldn't that just give him the cookie(s) used by the e-mail (if such a thing is even possible?)? It wouldn't send him all the reader's cookies, would it? Certainly not the one for the matter transference server, right? Isn't this described "hack" impossible as described? Maybe with a good source of brownian motion, and an activatio
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I can just see it now... (Score:2)
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Damn, What's the improbability of this?? (Score:1)
make: *** No rule to make target `tea'. Stop.
[user@localhost ~]$