The true meaning of 42

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[–]superjesus 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

This isn't true. Douglas Adams stated numerous times that he picked a number at random and it has no significance whatsoever other than to be anticlimactic.

[–]Sixto 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But in the very same article:

He ruled out non-integers, then he remembered having worked as a "prop-borrower" for John Cleese on his Video Arts training videos. Cleese needed a funny number for the punchline to a sketch involving a bank teller (himself) and a customer (Tim Brooke-Taylor). Adams believed that the number that Cleese came up with was 42 and he decided to use it.

So is it random or is is because Cleese thought it was a funny number?

The plot thickens!