1st September 2006, 11:09 AM
No, the answer can say basically just this "it's totally arbitrary and meaningless". Then explain what arbitrary means. Perfectly satisfactory explanation.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)