Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds.

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5 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 5 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:29:23.240 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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- Hastily embroidering it with a few footnotes in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly torturous Galactic copyright laws.

- It is interesting to note that a later and wilier editor sent the book backwards in time through a temporal warp, and then successfully sued the breakfast cereal company, for infringement of the same laws.

- Here's a sample, in both headings and footnotes...

- The Universe. Some information to help you live in it. 1. Area: infinite. 2. Population: none.

- It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one of them is inhabited, therefore there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds.

- Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds.

- So, if every planet in the universe has a population of zero, then the entire population of the universe must also be zero.

- And any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

- 3. Monetary units: none. In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the galaxy, but the altairian dollar has recently collapsed.

- The flainian pobble bead is only exchangeable for other flainian pobble beads.

- And the triganic pu doesn't really count as money. It's exchange rate of 8 ningis to 1 pu is simple, but since a ningi is a triangular rubber coin 6800 miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one pu.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

The funniest lines and quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981 TV Series, with sound clips.

Actors: Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), David Dixon (Ford Prefect), David Learner (Marvin the Paranoid Android), Peter Jones (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Book), Sandra Dickinson (Trillian Astra), Mark Wing-Davey (Zaphod Beeblebrox), David Tate (Eddie the Computer), Martin Benson (Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz), Richard Evelyn Vernon (Slartibartfast), Valentine Dyall (Deep Thought)

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