Re h2g2 (Adams DN 1979):
"[42] quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is. [...] So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."
Re Sir Karl, I have to admit a typo (1+6 instead of 6-1, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything for related algebraic problems) and I should have quoted the original publication:
Popper KR. Logik der Forschung. Julius Springer: Wien; 1937. English: The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Basic Books: New York; 1959.
Cheers, Knut
At 12:38 2004-02-07 -0500, Andy wrote:
Hi Knut,
Could you please provide more information on the Popper and Adams references you cite above? While I'm fairly certain that Popper 1979 is:
Popper, Karl. Objective knowledge: an evolutionary approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1979,
Knut> that depends entirely on your ability to understand what the Knut> underlying question would be (see Adams D 1979)
leads me to suspect that you intended to cite The Hitchhikker's Guide.
Cheers, Andy -- Andy Jacobson Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Sayre Hall, Forrestal Campus Princeton University PO Box CN710 Princeton, NJ 08544-0710 USA Tel: 609/258-5260 Fax: 609/258-2850
At 20:54 2004-02-07 +0100, Peter wrote:
...in which case the answer is forty-two, surely.
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