re tiff philosophical significance of silly in c wd w bqs skates gsfc nasa gov xrcjd mudpuppy gsfc nasa gov charles j divine writes in article r lf fu geraldo cc utexas edu mark a cartwright markc emx utexas edu writes of course the question has not yet been discovered but the question was later revealed to be what is x in the base system of course if you read the last couple of books in the series closely well and at least there are at least two points at which the real question is implied conversations proceed much like zaphod what is the ultimate question i wonder arthur not paying much attention to zaphod but needing a random seed for the infinite improbability drive think of a number any number actually it may be marvin who uses this phrase a few times as well and everytime it s arranged such that think of a number any number could be an answer to someone s question about the question i kind of like it very mystifying it s not even pick a number or tell me a number just think of one kevin martin sigma rahul net use the flipper
