42 - The Answer!

The number 42 is a significant piece in Douglas Adams'  'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.'  

For all of us, looking for "the answer," this is it.  There IS an answer The answer is 42!  Yeah!  

"In the first novel and radio series, a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer, Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life.2C_the_Universe_and_Everything_.2842.29

'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams