What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

[pgn]

I just had to share this, if only because it was in the FT and it's about one of my favourite literary works... 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Gx6N16OCy7YYgtyswMv_CkS6OgUtuo3/view?usp=drivesdk

Moved to Gdrive, &#"+ paywall... 

[jonsie]

No offence....why on earth would I want to subscribe to the Financial Times.....

[Mi-Amigo]

@pgn 

told me, I got to subscribe to read it 

[pgn]

Changed the link now @Mi-Amigo and @jonsie

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Gx6N16OCy7YYgtyswMv_CkS6OgUtuo3/view?usp=drivesdk

[Cleoriff]

Yes same here...so as they say on Dragons Den...I'm out.

[pgn]

Look again, I've recooked it, @Cleoriff. 

[jonsie]

That link works @pgn 

Though I have to say that I seem to have outgrown that partcular franchise.

[Mi-Amigo]

Thanks @pgn 

Only thing I don`t get is the question in the title of your thread - or am I missing something   ? 

[Cleoriff]

Ok..thanks

[MI5]

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

Thanks @pgn 

Only thing I don`t get is the question in the title of your thread - or am I missing something   ? 

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What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

"Six by nine. Forty two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe"
...

Well as most people know, the “answer” to this question (in the Hitchhikers universe) is 42.

When Douglas Adams was asked whether he invented this question because six times nine is actually 54, which is 42 when written in base thirteen, he replied: