<Tr> <Td> (1) How many spheres are in the diagram? (six rows of seven is 42) </Td> <Td> (2) What position in the grid does the Earth occupy? (42) </Td> <Td> (3) The barcode on one of the spheres is the number 42 as an Interleaved 2 of 5 barcode </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> (4) Considering red - hued spheres (red, purple, orange, black) as a' 1' and those without as a' 0', what number does each line represent in decimal form? (In binary, each line reads' 0101010', or' 42' in decimal form .) </Td> <Td> (5) What number do the blue - tinted spheres (blue, green, purple, black) spell out? (Similar to a colour blindness test .) (42) </Td> <Td> (6) What number is represented by Roman numerals spelled out by the yellow - tinted spheres (yellow, orange, green, black) in the first three rows? (XLII = 42) </Td> </Tr> <P> The number 42 and the phrase, "Life, the universe, and everything" have attained cult status on the Internet . "Life, the universe, and everything" is a common name for the off - topic section of an Internet forum and the phrase is invoked in similar ways to mean "anything at all". Many chatbots, when asked about the meaning of life, will answer "42". Several online calculators are also programmed with the Question . Google Calculator will give the result to the answer to life the universe and everything as 42, as will Wolfram's Computational Knowledge Engine . Similarly, DuckDuckGo also gives the result of the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything as 42 . In the online community Second Life, there is a section on a sim called "42nd Life ." It is devoted to this concept in the book series, and several attempts at recreating Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, were made . </P> <P> In OpenOffice.org software (prior to version 3.4) if = ANTWORT ("Das Leben, das Universum und der ganze Rest") (German for = ANSWER ("life, the universe and everything")) is typed into any cell of a spreadsheet, the result is 42 . </P>

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