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	Six times Nine is Forty Two in base 13.  This may or may not
be a statment as to the true nature of the Universe.

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42 is the number of dots on a pair of dice and it appears to me that Douglas
Adams does play dice with the universe!

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	Six times nine truly is 42 if you're working with the proper
	numeric base, namely 13.
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			Evan Ross   decwrl!amd!fortune!dsd!ross

"To oppose something is to maintain it.
 To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar."