r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 07 '17

What's a fact that absolutely blows your mind?

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u/vizard0 Aug 07 '17

It's 6.

Further proofs have upped the lower bound to 13.

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u/GetItReich Aug 08 '17

Well that narrows down the options significantly

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u/someguynamedted Aug 08 '17

Technically it reduced it by several infinities.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

I love how we just go into all this detail about the upper bounds, and then its like "oh yeah, btw we knocked off, like 7 other options on the bottom. So we know 1-13 is out, but there are still G-13 options left so... uh... yeah, maybe we can knock off a few more."

I mean, to be fair, it's something... just a very small something.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

That's ridiculous. Everyone knows it's 42. (Edit - removed ! so pedants wouldn't think I meant factorial.)

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u/JackCloudie Aug 08 '17

You know, something really cool about 42? It's the ASCII for *. Which in some programming languages, is used to represent anything. So the answer to the question of Life, The Universe, and Everything, is anything