[TriLUG] Re: OT: When did GMail prostitution get so popular?

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Fri Aug 27 15:20:07 EDT 2004


On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 15:03, Robert L. Huffstedtler wrote:
> I hadn't read the series in about 15 years, and I had forgotten that
> Adams intentionally got the math wrong as well.
> 

It isn't wrong, per se, it's just in base 13 instead of base 10.

Just do the conversation
6 * 9 = 54 in decimal
54 / 13 = 4 remainder 2, or 42(base13).

Hope this helps, HAND.

Jeremy
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