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42

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Also known as forty-two, forty two,

natural number

AI overview

42 is a natural number that comes after 41 and before 43. While it has mathematical properties like any other number, it is perhaps best known in popular culture as "the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" from Douglas Adams' science fiction comedy series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
harshad number
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code
110
Commons category
42 (number)
numeric value
42
prime factor
7
Unicode character
number of decimal digits
2
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WikiProject Mathematics
partially coincident with
42
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Encyclopedic overview

← 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 → List of numbers Integers

← 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 →

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “42” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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