I want to find a way to project them onto a space that makes it work, but that's beyond my math skills. Kind of like how someone figured out that the math works out for 6 x 9 = 42 if you use base 13. Definitely not what Douglas Adams intended though:

The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story.