I read it.
I reread it.
And I couldn't help thinking..."this article is about Prime Numbers, and they're talking about the number 42".
Which isn't a prime number.
I suppose it's the product of the first three primes.
Certainly the article could have added a little but more that air of hocus-pocus mystery (without, however, saying anything), by adding that detail, with a suitably raised editorial eyebrow of course.
Oh hell, while I'm add it, I ought to add more hocus pocus and mystery.
42 has dramatic religious significance because it is the product of the first TRINITY of Primes!
And indeed, the first prime and second prime, multiplied together, produce 6, the number of man! So, the primes produce a man! But then the very next prime, following intimately and immediately thereafter, is the very next number, 7! The divine seven, the holy spirit following the product of the first two. Now, multiply the trinity of father, son and holy spirit primes (so to speak), and you get 42!!! The divine product of the number of man 6 (Which is the product itself of the first pair of primes, father and son), and 7, the holy spirit of primes!
Even more mysteriously, the sum of the digits of the product of the First Trinity of Primes is...SIX! Man re-emerges!
Holy bubbling bongwater, Batman!!!
I counter-suppose that the number "5" would disagree with you.
But I too would have liked to read more about the '42' connection.
Forget 42. See 49. :-)
First time through - natural primes:
First = 1
Second = 2
Third = 3
Fourth = 5
Second time through:
First = 1 (1)
Second = 2 (1*2)
Third = 6 (1*2*3)
Fourth = 42 (1*2*3*7, skipping 5 because it is the 4th prime, and 4 is not a prime number)
Third time through:
First = 1 (1)
Second = 2 (1*2)
Third = 6 (1*2*3)
Fourth = 546 (skipping 42 since it is fourth on list 2, and 4 is not a prime, thus 1*2*3*7*13)
Fourth time through:
null progam, since 4 is not a prime.
Therefore mathematics does not exist.
1×2×3=6...