42Tower 42 is a skyscraper in the City of London, formerly known as the NatWest Tower.
In AdventureQuest, there is a door with the number 42 on it, which, if you click on it, says "This door contains the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. It is locked, bolted, and duct-taped shut." a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, at other times it'll say "beware the Leopardzard", a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the part of the book where Arthur Dent is describing the disused toilet in which he found the building plans that involved his house).
On Neopets a programmer named Ollie constantly says 42 in reply to Neomails about the Altador Plot.
The Number of quatrains that remain in Nostradamus's 7th Century.
The number of U.S. gallons of oil contained in one barrel of oil (this equals just under 159 litres and 35 UK gallons).
The age at which Elvis Presley died.
The age at which Satchel Paige, St. Louis Browns (1906-1982) became the American League's first black pitcher in 1948.
The age at which Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, retired as the oldest NBA player in 1989 .
The maximum number received of any one present in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas.
In Lewis Carroll's book, The Hunting of the Snark, which he wrote at the age of 42, "one who was famed for the number of things/ He forgot when he entered the ship:" had "...forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,/ With his name painted clearly on each:/ But, since he omitted to mention the fact/ They were all left behind on the beach." Its preface also references a 'rule 42' ("No one shall speak to the Man at the Helm").
In Lewis Carroll's long poem Phantasmagoria, written when he was in his mid 30's, are the lines "But still to choose a brat like you / To haunt a man of forty-two / Was no great compliment." Arguably the number was simply chosen for rhyme and metre but, given his other references to the number, it is perhaps of more significance.
Carroll's Alice has 42 illustrations. In Chapter XII, the king explains "the oldest rule in the book": "Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court".
When a Rubik's Twist is folded into its "ball" form, it forms a tetracontakaidigon, or 42 sided figure.
The sum of the numbers or pips on a pair of conventional (six-sided) dice.
The name of a Texan trick-taking game played with dominoes (see 42 (dominoes)).
The number of the French department Loire.
The name of an equipment finance and lease management product built by Northern Arch.
The minimum age one had to have been to be elected a consul in the Roman Republic.
Part of the name of 42 BELOW, a vodka produced in New Zealand.
The number of perfect squares formed by the grid at a 19x19 Go board, when the "squares" are slightly rectangular with the ratio 13/12, as required by tradition.
The number of hours that the potion caused Juliet to sleep for (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene 1, line 105).
In Japanese, 4 (shi) and 2 (ni) are together pronounced like "going to death" (死に). Because of that, in Japan, 42 is considered as a disastrous number. This happens in Hong Kong too, as 42 sounds like "easy death" in Cantonese.
Age (in years) of the horse that drove Mr. Pickwick to Golden Cross, as reported by a cabman (The Pickwick Papers, Chapter III).
The number of holes on a Connect Four game board.
The number of legs on the Centipede in Roald Dahl's book James and the Giant Peach.
The world record for the most amount of people in one car is 42.
In Scene One of "The Island" by Athol Fugard, John remarks that, "[Cell block] Number 42 is practicing the Zulu War Dance".
There were originally 42 columns and 42 figures from Greek myth in the Parthenon.
The number of enemies Gimli the Dwarf kills at the Battle of the Hornburg in The Lord of the Rings (changed to 43 in the film version, although Legolas states he killed 42 in the Extended Edition of The Two Towers).
William Jefferson Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States, hence sometimes termed "42". Since George H. W. Bush is 41 and George W. Bush is 43, 42 has also come to signify the space between two shrubs in a hedge.
Washington became the 42nd state in the Union on November 11, 1889.
In New York City, 42nd Street is a main and very popular two-way thoroughfare. Landmarks on it include the Chrysler Building, Grand Central Station, the main branch of the New York Public Library, and Times Square. The New York City street is also the setting for a movie by the same name (which also gave fame to its eponymous title song), and which later inspired a musical adaptation, 42nd Street.
HA 42 is an infamous Hip Hop and Graffiti crew with members in several states.
In Oscar Wilde's book The Importance of Being Earnest, 42 is the age that Gwendolen Fairfax wishes Cecily Cardew were.
The number of teeth in Moby d**k.
The age at which the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck retired.
In Julia Quinn's romance novel, Romancing Mister Bridgerton, before revealing her "brilliant idea", Lady Danbury asks, " 'How many great mysteries are there in life, really?'" The hero replies cheekily :"Forty-two?"
The atomic number of molybdenum. The element following molybdenum with atomic number 43 (technetium) has no stable isotopes.
The number of teeth wolves and dogs (canines) have.
42° is the critical angle of refraction by water - it is the angle between a rainbow and the antisolar point.
The light leaving a rainbow is spread over a wide angle, with a maximum intensity around 42°
The number of minutes it would take a theoretical "gravity train" to travel to any point on earth.
In one Grand Unified Theory, the Georgi-Glashow model, the inverse of the coupling constant is approximately 42.
10! (10 factorial) seconds is exactly 42 days.
On page 7-10 of Volume 1 of "The Feynmann Lectures on Physics" is a marginal figure that illustrates the strength ratio of gravitation attraction and electrical repulsion between two electrons as 1/4.17 x 10^42. The denominator is also written out by hand as a long, snaking 4,170,... followed by 39 more zeros. Feymann mentions the unified field theory, the similarity of the inverse square laws, the disparity of the relative strengths, and asks "Where could such a large number come from? ... it involves something deep in nature."
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