For posts about the comic Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz
Transcript:
Violet is jumping rope and she is saying "Eleventy-Six, Thirty-Twelve,"
Violet is still jumping and saying " Fifty-Four-Forty, Sixty-One-Teen..."
Shermy is running and he yells "Hey, Violet!"
Violet stops jumping and is upset as she says to Shermy, "Now look what you've done! You've made me lose count!"
The first interaction between Violet and Shermy
Original comic:
I want to find a way to project them onto a space that makes it work, but that's beyond my math skills. Kind of like how someone figured out that the math works out for 6 x 9 = 42 if you use base 13. Definitely not what Douglas Adams intended though:
The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story.