<Li> Alice's attempts at multiplication (chapter two of Alice in Wonderland) work if one uses base 18 to write the first answer, and increases the base by threes to 21, 24, etc. (the answers working up to 4 × 12 = "19" in base 39), but "breaks" precisely when one attempts the answer to 4 × 13 in base 42, leading Alice to declare "oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!" </Li> <Li> Rule Forty - two in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ("All persons more than a mile high to leave the court"). </Li> <Li> Rule 42 of the Code in the preface to The Hunting of the Snark ("No one shall speak to the Man at the Helm"). </Li> <Li> In "fit the first" of The Hunting of the Snark the Baker had "forty - two boxes, all carefully packed, With his name painted clearly on each ." </Li>

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