42

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42 or The 42 most commonly refers to:

• 42 (number), the natural number following 41 and preceding 43
• one of the years 42 BC, AD 42, 1942, 2042
• the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, from Douglas Adams's series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• 42 (film), a 2013 biopic about Jackie Robinson

42 may also refer to:

• "42" (Doctor Who), a 2007 TV episode
• "42", the final episode in 2001 of TV series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

• 42, a 2012 album by Cthulhu Rise
• 42 (Sech album), 2021
• "42", a song by Coldplay from the 2008 album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
• "42" (Aya Nakamura song), 2024
• "42", a song by Mumford & Sons from the 2018 album Delta
• "Forty Two", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2010 album Appalachian Incantation, 2010

• 42 (dominoes), a game
• 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, 2023 book by Kevin Jon Davies
• The42, an Irish app and sports news website

• 42 (school), a French computer programming school
• The 42 (Kolkata), a residential skyscraper in India
• 42.zip, a zip bomb in computing
• 42, a retired jersey number once worn by Jackie Robinson
• 42, the atomic number of Molybdenum

• All pages with titles beginning with 42
• 42 class (disambiguation)
• 42 Entertainment, an alternate reality games company
• 42 Isis, a main-belt asteroid
• 42-volt electrical system
• Tower 42, a skyscraper in London, England