Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Many many millions of years ago a race of hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings got so fed up with the constant bickering about the meaning of life that they decided to sit down and solve their problems once and for all. And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super computer. This computer called "Deep Thought" took 7.5 million years thinking about the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. the answer is 42.