Posted on 09/07/2019 8:26:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The original problem, set in 1954 at the University of Cambridge, looked for Solutions of the Diophantine Equation x3+y3+z3=k, with k being all the numbers from one to 100.
Beyond the easily found small solutions, the problem soon became intractable as the more interesting answers—if indeed they existed—could not possibly be calculated, so vast were the numbers required.
But slowly, over many years, each value of k was eventually solved for (or proved unsolvable), thanks to sophisticated techniques and modern computers—except the last two, the most difficult of all; 33 and 42.
Professors Booker and Sutherland's solution for 42 would be found by using Charity Engine; a 'worldwide computer' that harnesses idle, unused computing power from over 500,000 home PCs to create a crowd-sourced, super-green platform made entirely from otherwise wasted capacity.
The answer, which took over a million hours of calculating to prove, is as follows:
X = -80538738812075974 Y = 80435758145817515 Z = 12602123297335631
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
As we’ve been informed, the final answer doesn’t matter. Only the methodology. Or something. :-)
42 is the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything.
Somehow, then, "42" must be Jesus Christ. <<<
You obviously never read Douglas Adams “Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy”
Genesis 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Matthew 1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.
See, it all adds up. Everybody's a winner, yay! :)
And, if you are like me, even if at a much later age you did have a need for it you would have forgotten how to use it.
Damn——I hate that
If you know Christ, you are a winner forever. We’re here to let our light so shine that others may also come to Christ.
"The answer is, 4?"
Did anyone check their work?
I get 1097846267026460000000000000000000000. Not 42.
Could be worse; gets stuck valet-parking spaceships at Milliways and gets the urge to stick its head in a bucket of water after being contacted on the phone by old companions.
Inside jokes are obviously not your forte.
Tisk.
Must be imaginary numbers.
Seems unfair one one (or more) of the terms can be negative lol
Post# 42. Are you going to claim devine intervention?
“If you don’t give a hoot
About the man with a Bible
In his hand;
Just step out the way
And let the gentleman do his thang”
“If six were nine....”
Hendrix?
What is more amazing, although not resulting in such a use of excess computing power, is that we all spent some portion of our day reading the article and the comments and posting. That’s a shame!
I’ve had that same thought too.
BTW: a character I used for a moment of exposition in a Transformers fan fiction I wrote, Whitepool, was a play on the ancient meaning of Douglas.
Well, God *is* a funny Guy (the religious world is wound pretty tight so it has no clue), so that would not surprise me at all, haha.
I didn't plot that. I hadn't even noticed the post number until your replies started rolling in.
Hilarious! Thanx.
Anybody found the Ark of the Covenant yet? 'Cause y'all know where to look. ;)
"and ye shall know that I am the Lord."
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