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Van: "Bruno Marchal" <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
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Verzonden: donderdag 8 augustus 2002 13:13
Onderwerp: RE: Rationality of free will in the multiverse
> Doug Donaghue wrote
>
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> >Doug:
> >> >As Douglas Adams so succinctly put it; "The answer is, in fact, 42."
> > >
> >> Bruno:
> > > Yes, but Douglas Adams was wrong. Actually, it is 24. <g>
> >>
> > >
> > >
> >
> >Hmmm.......... Does dyslexia cause a split in the multiverse?
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> Reality is a symphony directed by 4 concertmasters:
> the number e, the number pi, the number i and the number 24.
> ('course 0 and 1 play in the background).
>
> :-)
>
>
> Why the number 24? I just smell it!, Unfortunately I have not the time,
> nor the space, nor the energy to help. It is linked to Ramanujan works
> and to the use of number's partition in statistics.
>
> See the following books for hints. The first one is perhaps, btw, my
> favorite introduction to Numberland:
>
> 1) The Book of Numbers, by John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy,
> Copernicus-Springer-Verlag, 1996. (page 94sq)
>
> Much more on 24 in the chapter 5 from the book:
>
> 2) The Theory of Partitions, by George E. Andrews, Cambridge University
> Press 1984, paperback 1998, originally published by Addison-Wesley 1976.
>
> Ok, 42 is the decimal mirror of 24. Doug (Adams) was not *so* wrong;
> perhaps *he* was suffering dyslexia, after all ;)
>
> More on statistics, number's partitions, young tableau, etc., later ...
>
> Bruno
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