Timeline for Was Douglas Adams influenced by Lewis Carroll, with his '42' answer and others things?
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| Feb 12, 2019 at 3:17 | comment | added | Jacob C. | Regarding Wikipedia's "[clarification needed]", "best" there was apparently meant in terms of fitting the 0.5*42^3 number. 36,525+365+31+31+31+31+30 is the maximum numbers of days that can be described by that word description under the Julian or Gregorian calendars, since there are no consecutive stretches of five months with all of them 31 days. (Most Gregorian centuries have 36,524 days, but one in four centuries has 36,525. All Julian centuries have 36,525 days.) This was almost certainly intentional on Carroll's part. | |
| Feb 12, 2019 at 1:48 | answer | added | Bruce Johnson | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 27, 2017 at 22:12 | comment | added | Pryftan | And that quote the other answer cites comes from usenet where he spent some time in the 1990s until he was (my wording here) scared off. But there is a very funny thread that includes that response: groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.fan.douglas-adams/595nPukE-Jo/… | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:43 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 19, 2016 at 17:11 | comment | added | Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_ | Some writers hide their stated influences lest they be accused of "stealing". | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 11:05 | answer | added | Daniel Roseman | timeline score: 11 | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 10:25 | comment | added | Adamant | All it means is that the Answer really is 42. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 10:23 | history | edited | AncientSwordRage♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 18, 2016 at 10:15 | history | asked | AncientSwordRage♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |