Do you have a source for that? It took 7.5 million years for Deep Thought to discover the significance of 42, and it didn't even break it up into a sum of three cubes :) https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Deep_Thought
I can't believe no-one has mentioned out loud the reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
"The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42"