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The number 42 became famous because math enjoys inside jokes.

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The number 42 is famous as the answer in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978 radio series, 1979 novel). Adams said he chose it as an ordinary number, and it is not a mathematics joke.

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