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.

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

You can hear this line at 00:29:58.920 in the Blu-ray version of the episode.

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- 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.

- Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change.

- From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.

- 4. Sex: None. Well, in fact there is an awful lot of this, largely because of the total lack of money, trade, banks, or anything else that might keep all the non-existent people of the universe occupied.

- However, it's not worth embarking on a long discussion of it now, because it really is terribly complicated.

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