Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:19:42 +0000, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> 
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>>> 2^2677009:1 against.
>>>>>
>>>>> (Name that number!)
>>>> Picking up Ford and Arthur in the ship (whose name I can't recall) in
>>>> Hitchhiker's.... ?
>>> Close enough; it's the odds of being picked up by a passing spaceship
>>> in deep space within the 30 seconds it takes to asphyxiate.
>> Surely that's an Islington phone number ? ;-)
> 
> It is also that, except for in the film, where the odds were changed for 
> some bizzare reason.

Not bizarre; the area codes in London have changed several times since 
1979 and the numbers were altered to produce a plausible London phone 
number.

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