How much wood….
Category 42 in Technology
Apple and 42?
The weight of an iPod nano in grams.
TIFFs
In the TIFF image file format, the second 16-bit word of every file is 42, which is used together with the first word to indicate byte order. In the reiser4 file system, 42 is the inode number of the root directory.
42 is the result given by the web search engines Google, Wolfram Alpha and Bing when the query “the answer to life the universe and everything”
is entered as a search. Give it a go!
Fibre Optic cables
Light must enter a fibre optic cable at an angle no greater than 42° otherwise it will not reach the other end.
Siri
When asking Siri, the new iPhone’s virtual assistant, “What is the meaning of life?”, one of the answers you get is “42.”
Also when you has siri “How much wood would a woodchuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” Siri would respond:
“42 cords of wood, to be exact. Everyone knows that.”
More information…
The asterisk, which is used to represent “more information” on occasion is ASCII* character 42. So the must be more to it.
*The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII, pronunciation: /ˈæski/ ass-kee;) is a character-encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many more characters than ASCII does.
Where Are U 42? 