Today is my 42nd birthday, so it's time for some links...
Of course 6X9=42 in Base 13, but as Douglas Adams himself said, "
I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in Base 13."
Numberphile tackles the number
And again. It took a long time to find how to get 42 by summing three cubes
Miscellaneous mathematical properties from Wikipedia
Star Trek events in years that end with 42 (Memory Alpha and Beta):
2342: Picard refuses to meet Jenice in Paris, Ishara Yar is born, Bevery Howard starts her medical training
2242: Gary Mitchell and Janice Rand are born, construction begins on the 1701 under the command of Robert April
2142: Wendy Raymond (great great granddaughter of Clare Raymond) dies
2042: Final World Series (won by Buck Bokai)
1942: The Nexus ribbon passed through the galaxy this year, Chekov is transported to this year by an omnipotent being in a novel and meets one of Kirk's ancestors
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