How rare is 42?
42
Legendary · Top 0.02%
- Total score
- 293 points
- Rank
- 114 of 1,000,000
- Top
- 0.02%
- Beats
- 99.98% of numbers
- Ties
- No other number has this score
Every number has the same 1-in-1,000,000 chance of being rolled. This number beats 99.98% of all numbers; no other number scores exactly the same.
2 away from a Solid Block: 44
42 = 2 × 3 × 7
Why 42 scores this way
42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Rarebit’s Deep Thought badge is worth 199 points on its own. Both digits are even and 42 divides by its digit sum of 6, which brings the total to 293. That ranks 114th of one million numbers.
Badges 42 earns
4 badges found. Only the highest-scoring badge in each family counts; the others are shown for completeness.
| Badge | Family | What it means | Odds | Points | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Even Keel | Digits | Every digit is even (0, 2, 4, 6 or 8), like 4,826 | 1 in 64 | 60 | Counts |
| No Repeats | Digits | Two or more digits and no digit appears twice, like 795,014 | about 1 in 6 | 26 | Shown only |
| Digit Divider | Shapes | Divides evenly by the sum of its digits, like 81 (8 + 1 = 9, and 81 ÷ 9 = 9) | 1 in 10 | 34 | Counts |
| Deep Thought | Culture | The number 42 exactly | 1 in 1,000,000 | 199 | Counts |
| Total score | 3 counting badges | 293 | |||