The 42 problem
The ultimate Challenge
Since Douglas Adams, the number 42 has been a synonym for answers to which we no longer have the questions.
Like products and solutions we've been developing for decades — and have long since forgotten why we built them, why in exactly that way, and what specific need originally lay behind them — in other words: what question they were actually meant to answer.
And Peter, who would know, left the company three years ago.

You're wondering what the deal is with 42?
Click the button on the right to learn the story behind it.
The Story Behind 42
In Douglas Adams' comedic sci‑fi series, the supercomputer Deep Thought is built by hyper-intelligent beings to find The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
After 7.5 million years, Deep Thought reveals the answer is 42
But nobody knows the actual question to it.
It turns out:
The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is not specific enough as it lacks the real question.
To discover the question, they design another computer planet-sized - Earth.
Which gets destroyed before it completes its task.
Arthur Dent humorously concludes the question might be
“What do you get if you multiply six by nine?”
Which doesn’t match 42 in decimal, hinting at a cosmic absurdity
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