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… to have “the answer to life the universe and everything“. I didn’t understand why it was 42, but after some researching I found that it was reffering to the book ‘A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams.

According to the Hitchhiker’s Guide, researchers from a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings, construct Deep Thought, the second greatest computer of all time and space, to calculate the Ultimate Answer. After seven and a half million years of pondering the question, Deep Thought provides the answer: “forty-two.”
“Forty-two!” yelled Loonquawl. “Is that all you’ve got to show for seven and a half million years’ work?” “I checked it very thoroughly,” said the computer, “and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you’ve never actually known what the question is.” [From Wikipedia]

So Google knows all, I wonder what else it knows? Though this is quite old, I ‘refound’ it and thought it was quite interesting how Google includes these nice things. That’s what makes it special. There must be some other things like this inside Google’s calculator. Now to try and find out…