On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 15:03, Robert L. Huffstedtler wrote: > I hadn't read the series in about 15 years, and I had forgotten that > Adams intentionally got the math wrong as well. >
It isn't wrong, per se, it's just in base 13 instead of base 10. Just do the conversation 6 * 9 = 54 in decimal 54 / 13 = 4 remainder 2, or 42(base13). Hope this helps, HAND. Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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