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[Math_nerd]

1. AREA: Infinite

The Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite."
Infinite: Bigger that the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a total stunning size, real "wow, that's big," time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison,biggness itself looks really tichy. Gigantic mutiplied by colossal mutiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.

2. IMPORTS: None

It is impossible to import things into an infinite area, there being no outside to import things in from.

3. EXPORTS: None

See Imports

4. POPULATION: None

It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefor, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by an infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

5. MONETARY UNITS: None

In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altairian Dollar has reacently collapsed, the Flainian Pobble Bead is only exchangable for other Flainian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one pu is simple enough, but since a ningi is a triangular rubber coinsix thousand eight hundred miles alon each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not nogotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in such fiddling change. From this basic premice it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.

6. ART: None

The function of art is to hold a mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough --- see point one.

7. SEX: None

Well, in fact there is an awful lot of this, largely because of the total lack of money, trade, banks, art or anything else that might keep all the nonexistent people of the Universe occupied.

However, it is not worth embarking on a long discussion of it now because it really is terribly complicated. For further information see Guide Chapters seven, nine, ten, eleven, fourteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-one to eighty-four inclusive, and in fact most of the rest of the Guide.

[i]Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams[/i]
I belive.....

[Pixyboo]

Spaceioud Dude!

[lifeis42]

amzing the guide

[Insanity test]

The Hitchhiker-s guide to the galaxy is a truly remarkable book.
The introduction starts like this: 'Space,' It says, 'is big, really big, you just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is! I mean you might think it's a long way down the street to the chemists, but that's just peanuts to space, listen!' and so on.

[lifeis42]

did you know that he was drunk when he wrote most of that book

[TheCountess]

I'd believe it, and wasn't the result fabulous?

[Insanity test]

The second series was so hot off the press that he'd often surprise the actors with new lines as they were recording! They had to be careful not to make the really cheap paper rustle too much as they turned the fresh pages.