42 is the answer to life the universe and everything

Much thanks to pro for finishing. I will refute his arguments against mine, refute his points, and give mine. To refute 1 being a prerequisite to all other numbers, he uses an example about a chair being made of wood not being a piece of wood, thus 42 is not 1. I agree, this is pretty obvious. I never said 1 was the same thing as 42. Nevertheless, it doesn't change the fact that the chair is made up of wood, and that 42 is made up on 1's. So, in order to be the Answer, it must not depend on anything else to exist, just like the chair cannot be because it depends on wood, and 42 cant be because it depends on 1. Then he argues that we dont know that 1 was the first number created. However I have already showed you how no other number can exist without 1, because that is what makes up every number. Sine 1 is the only number that can exist independently, it must logically be the first number created, since nothing else can exist without it. The well respected mathematical journal, Wikipedia, (1) proves this. "One is the *first* non-zero number in the natural numbers as well as the *first* odd number in the natural numbers." The FIRST. Wikipedia says it, beat that. Furthermore, even if you dont buy that, my opponent as the instigator has the burden of proof to prove to you that 42 was indeed the first number. He hasnt done that, so this isn't an offensive argument anyway. Then he says 42 doesn't rely on 1 because 42 is its own number and is not called 42 1's. However, that doesn't change the fact that is is made up of 1's. We dont call it 42 1's because that is unnecessarily long. 42 may be its own number, but thats only because there are enough 1's to allow it to exist anyway. Using my opponent's chair example, the chair may be its own object but it still has a wood component. Now onto his reasons 42 is the Answer. 1. He says Google and Bing have 42 as the answer. However, if you ask the Question in other search engines, such as Ask or Yahoo, you do not get an exact calculation and instead only get blogs and the like made by misguided people as to what the answer is. This shows you that not every search engine agrees on what the answer is and that it is still up for debate. Furthermore, if you ask the question at Dogpile.com, which is a combination of Google and Bing, you also do not get an exact calculation. So even those 2 my opponent listed aren't 100% sure. 2. He says on base 13, 6x9 = 42. However, my opponent, again having the burden of proof, must show you why we should look to this base 13 rather than the base 10 we all actually use on a daily basis. But he never says why we should prioritize base 13 over 10, so this is irrelevant. Then he says Deep Thought came up with the answer as 42. However, if you have any knowledge of the book, you know that Deep Thought only came up with 42 because the question was not specific enough to specify the meaning of the question. This implies its more important to ask the right questions rather than get the right answers. In other words, the book says that Deep Thought did not interpret the correct meaning of the question. Thus, it gave a wrong answer. Finally he says 6 = 1+5 times 9 = 1 + 8 times root 3/2 divided by 86 halves squared, equaling the cube of 963 thirds over the square root of 74,369....point 5. But again, my opponent is simply twisting all numbers associated with 6 and 9 to get numbers he wants. I can do this to get 1. Ex: 6 = 4 + 2. 9 = 3 + 6. Using FOIL, 4 x 3 x 6 x (2 x 3) x (2 x 6) = 16 to the 19th power (thank god for calculators). 19 - 16 = 3. 3 = 2 + 1. 2/1 = 2. 2 = 1+1. 1/1 = 1. Thus, 6 times 9 is 1. Great success! That shows you that by twisting numbers around like my opponent is doing, you an get any number you want. Thus, six times nine is not an adequate way to determine the Answer. He also asks me to provide a source saying 1 is the Answer. However, some things are so obvious that sources are unnecessary, and thus impossible to find. For instance, if you go to Google and type in "Am I on a computer", you will get no results that have anything to do with that question. This is because the answer is so overwhelmingly obvious that nobody bothered to answer it. Likewise, sources are not posted saying 1 is the Answer because we feel it is unnecessary to post things that everyone should know. Furthermore, logical reasoning is just as powerful as a source. I do not need to look up 1 + 1 on a calculator, we can find that out ourselves, just like we have found out through logical reasoning that 1 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Now I will finish my points. 1 is the Answer because of mathematical alphabetics. If you assign numbers to the letters of Answer (since that is what we have referred to the answer to life, the universe, and everything as), then you get 1(14)(19)(23)(5)(18). First of all, Answer begins with A, which translates to 1. Then, if you line the numbers up sequentially, you get 1, 5, 14, 19,18, and 23. Again, the first number is 1. But that's not all. Four of the six numbers begin with 1! So the majority of the Answer is made up of 1's. When the number 1 is dominating the existence of the word Answer, it must be the Answer to life, the universe, and everything. Finally, 1 is the dominating number of our culture. We have one life. We have one brain. We have one house (unless you're John McCain. But that is also *1* person) There is one interweb. Debate.org is 1 website. We have one...no, I wont go there. The letter "I" refers to ourselves. "I" is similar in appearance to 1. This means we are also similar to 1. My opponent has given one argument each round. Finally, there is only one Answer. So when 1 is the dominating number of so many things, how can it not be the Answer? So in short, 1 is a prerequisite to all other numbers, makes up the word Answer, and is the most prevalent number in the world. Thats why I urge you to vote for one. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org...