Timeline for Was Douglas Adams influenced by Lewis Carroll, with his '42' answer and others things?
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| Feb 18, 2021 at 12:24 | comment | added | IMSoP | Adams might have been sub-consciously influenced by occurrences of the number 42 itself, if it really does occur more frequently than other numbers; but the number 13 has no significance anywhere in his story, and he is on record stating categorically that no reference to base 13 was intended by the "multiply six by nine" gag. It's very easy to see how that could be a coincidence - if he'd picked a different number, we'd be debating a different wild theory. | |
| Feb 12, 2019 at 2:05 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Feb 12, 2019 at 2:04 | history | edited | Bruce Johnson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2019 at 1:50 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 12, 2019 at 1:48 | history | answered | Bruce Johnson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |