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From: joe@jsnode.equinox.gen.nz (Joseph Skinner)
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Subject: Re: Fibonacci Numbers?
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In article <35n2ec$5ng@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>Keith, I can't believe you would make such a mistake, 34 indeed, doesn't
>everyone know that THE ANSWER is 42.
>
>By the way, I have a suggestion. When people
>ask a truly elementary question, defined as one which
>we can pretty much assume that all the readers of the newsgroup know the
>answer to, then it's probably better to EMAIL responses, we have now had
>half a dozen posts giving the formula for Fibonacci numbers, which is not
>very enlightening.
>
>Now if someone knows the question to which 42 is the answer, that would
>be really interesting and worth posting, though probably not to this
>newsgroup.
>

>From memory that would have to be 6*9
which as an interesting aside 6*9=13#42#

Joe.

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